From "In the First Circle"
"'Well, in art there is no progress! There can be none!" Nerzhin was delighted. 'No indeed! Indeed their isn't! That's what's so good about it! The seventeenth century had Rembrandt, and Rembrandt's still here- just try and go one better today! Whereas seventeenth-century technology seems primitive to us now. Or think of the great inventions of the eighteen seventies. To us they look like children's toys. Yet those were the years in which Anna Karenina was written. If you know of anything finer, I would like to hear about it!"
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