Quotes by Muttering I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing. Dmitri Shostakovich muttering sticks thinking What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes. Isaac Asimov muttering obvious habit Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit. T. S. Eliot muttering sawdust serious
