Just a extra-quick post with a nice citation, while I try to disentangle myself of a stupidly busy week  (I’m just not used to that anymore, that’s all…)

Orson Welles, in The Third man:

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

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