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It wouldn’t mean anything… in this din of hacks and famous names… filling their columns everyday with their bellowing and bleating and honking… It’s like a zoo where the seals throw fish to the public.
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They don’t know what success is. You have to be a writer in Russia. If the writers here only knew, they’d pack their bags for Moscow and St Petersburg.
For full extended monologue, please see the edition cited here: Stoppard, Tom. The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck. Act 1, “September 1847.” 2002.
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