Robertson Davies - I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mys...

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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Robertson Davies

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich sehe Kanada als ein Land, das zwischen einem sehr nordischen, ziemlich außergewöhnlichen, mystischen Geist, den es fürchtet, und seinem Wunsch, sich der Welt als schottischer Bankier vorzustellen, zerrissen ist.

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