A Translation of the New Philadelphia @ Grand Canal Flyway

"It’s a kind of biblical scene from Babylon, prophecy from the Apocalypse fulfilled before your eyes. You feel it would require a great deal of eternal spiritual resistance and repudiation not to surrender, not to succumb to the impression, not to bow down to fact and not to idolize Baal, that is, not to accept what exists as your ideal" (Dostoevsky. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions).

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