| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 38409 |
| QUOTATION: | The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary McCarthy (1912–1989), U.S. author, critic. Venice Observed, ch. 1 (1956). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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