NotreDameGargoyles - The Monday Morning Memo

“On this is all nights, the Count deeply appreciated their good cheer; but he was not so vain as to imagine it was founded solely on news of his narrow escape. For as he knew better than most, it was in September of 1905 that the members of the Delegation had signed the Treaty of Portsmouth to end the Russo-Japanese War. In the seventeen years since the making of that peace – hardly a generation – Russia had suffered a world war, a civil war, two famines, and the so-called Red Terror. In short, it had been through an era of upheaval that had spared none. Whether one’s leanings were left or right, Red or White, whether one’s personal circumstances had changed for the better or changed for the worse, surely at long last it was time to drink to the health of the nation.”

- Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, p. 17, transcribed on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020, during Covid-19 and wild arguments between the supporters of Donald Trump and Joe Biden

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