GreatWriters

^z23rd January 2026 at 7:49am

Maybe hubris, maybe poetic truth:

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

... from The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008.

_{(see also BuildingBookWeb (2 Feb 2001), ...)}