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" " What goes against my way of thinkin ' , " remarked Betsey Bottom , wiping a glass of cider on her checked apron before she handed it to Abel , " is that so peaceable lookin ' a gentleman as Mr. Jonathan should begin to start a fuss jest as soon as he lands in the midst of us . American Diaghilev scholar , Lynn Garafola , has remarked that Mir iskusstva was ‘ a breath of fresh air in a stagnant art world ’ . This never , in any one instance , occasioned evil : they however themselves discovered that it could not produce good , and they express themselves thus upon the subject in ' a declaration of the great principles upon which they think it their duty to act , agreed upon at Serampore , Oct. 7 , 1805 . " We 'll be celebratin ' a treaty , too , with the f * ckin ' heathens , " one of them reports to Swearengen , who is very pleased by the news.Sitting down with Farnum , Swearengen tells the hotelier that with a treaty , their fortunes are bright-the only thing that would ruin things is " unnecessary bloodshed . The title ' A Man Without a Country ' defines the self-referential subject matter examined by Kurt Vonnegut in this book .