this is why nobody likes old people. brought to you by Nikolai Gogol

Mar 16, 2006 21:04

a word to the wise:

"To such worthlessness, pettiness, vileness a man can descend! So changed he can become! Does this resemble the truth? Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man. The now ardent youth would jump back in horror if he were shown his own portrait in old age. So take with you on your way, as you pass from youth's tender years into stern, hardening manhood, take with you every humane impulse, do not leave them by the wayside, you will not pick them up later!"

--from Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, p. 129

i am off to San Diego for a week, and probly won't be so nerdy as to update or reply while away.  so, fare thee well, my hearties, until then...
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