Brilliant lines. excerpt from a fb post. Zola.

“…Zola does not waste time forgiving cruelty — cruelty is part of the weather. But deceit? Deceit is architecture. It builds false walls in a house already crumbling. And so honesty — even brutal, snarling honesty — becomes the final architecture of trust.“…

from the 31/5/2025 history of Literature post on Facebook.