Mar 01 2009

Sentence of the Day

By Doug Merrill in Doug, Eastern Europe, Excerpt, History
March 1, 2009

For a small break from Brussels and the economic crisis:

Nothing fades so quickly or so tackily as a Soviet resort.

One of the lighter observations (on p. 139) from The Spirit-Wrestlers by Philip Marsden, a journey across southern Russia and the Caucasus in search of various religious non-conformists who fell afoul of both Russian and Soviet states.

Caucasus, Doug, Non-Conformists, Philip Marsden, Russia

Doug Merrill

Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Currently based in Berlin, following stints in Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, Washington, Warsaw, Budapest and Atlanta. Also blogs at A Fistful of Euros, though less frequently than here these days.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2009/03/01/sentence-of-the-day/