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953a664 But the silent stranger could hardly have understood what was passing: she was a German who had not long been in Russia and knew not a word of Russian, and she seemed to be as stupid as she was handsome. She was a novelty and it had become a fashion to invite her to certain parties, sumptuously attired, with her hair dressed as though for a show, and to seat her in the drawing-room as a charming decoration, just as people sometimes borrow from their friends for a special occasion a picture, a statue, a vase, or a fire-screen. bourgeois-society objectification objectification-of-women foreigners bad-taste Fyodor Dostoyevsky
b941b53 Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn't look the way America does. bad-taste taste americans P. J. O'Rourke