Solzhenitsyn the writer

After finishing volumes 1 and 2 of the Gulag Archipelago I will post a couple quotes from it. Solzhenitsyn's metaphors are striking to me. This one especially grabbed me.

The journey in such a barge was no longer prisoner transport, but simply death on the installment plan. Anyway, they gave them hardly anything to eat. Then they tossed them out in the tundra - and there they didn't give them anything to eat. They just left them there to die, alone with nature. (578)

Who isn't on death on the installment plan?

Comments

Joe said…
"Who isn't on death on the installment plan?"

That is so true!

As some wag has noted, its the only guarantee more sure than taxes.

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