Brian Tracy
(1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.”
—
Nikolai Gogol
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book
The Government Inspector
Act I, sc. i
The Inspector General (1836)
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Directive (1947)
Context: Back out of all this now too much for us,
Back in a time made simple by the loss
Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more a house
Upon a farm that is no more a farm
And in a town that is no more a town.
The road there, if you'll let a guide direct you
Who only has at heart your getting lost,
May seem as if it should have been a quarry –
Great monolithic knees the former town
Long since gave up pretense of keeping covered.
And there's a story in a book about it…
