Samuel Johnson is Indignant:
that Scotland has so few trees.
Lydia Davis is mistress of the succinct! Everytime I read this I break out into a smile! The juxtapositions are so provocative and original. Bathos married intimately to the intensely subjective…and somehow this is SO believable. Almost as if we are gazing out of a carriage window with the great man, having an irascible morning and shutting out the landscape with a loud slam of the carriage window!