The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

Crambe repetita (43)

The Scotch are poor decorists. The Dutch have merely a vague idea that a curtain is not a cabbage. In Spain they are all curtains — a nation of hang men. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in their way. The Yankees alone are preposterous.

—Poe, ‘The Philosophy of Furniture’


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