«они не знали, что бедствие среднего вкуса хуже бедствия безвкусицы.» - Pasternak in Doctor Zhivago (Part 5, Chapter 7) , an interesting aphoristic phrase ... "they didn't know that the calamity of mediocre taste is worse than the calamity of tastelessness". Средне - coming from middle and average - means "middling" or "mediocre" ... so what is this calamity of "middling" taste, "so so" taste?.
"Sie sind ein Burger auf Irrwegen, Tonio Kroger — ein verirrter Burger."
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