/lit/ - Literature

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Lampedusa belongs in the company of these authors.

>The wealth of centuries had been transmuted into ornament, luxury, pleasure; no more; the abolition of feudal rights had swept away duties with privileges; wealth, like old wine, had let the dregs of greed, even of care and prudence, fall to the bottom of the barrel, preserving only verve and color.

We were the Leopards and Lions, those who take our place will be little jackals, hyenas...