on romanians
silvia on Jan 19th 2011
„Rumania is like a foolish person who has inherited a great fortune. It is all dissipated in vulgar nonsense. You know the story Rumanians tell about themselves: that God, when He had given gifts to the nations, found He had given to Rumania everything – forests, rivers, mountains, minerals, oil and a fertile soil that yielded many crops. “Hah”, said God. “This is too much”, and so, to strike a balance, he put here the worst people he could find.‟ in Olivia Manning, The Balkan Trilogy, London, 1990, pp. 38-39.
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