“Some colleagues, a tiny bit envious of his intuitions, a few priests, more acquainted with the many evils of our time, some subalterns, clerks, and his superiors too, insisted he read strange books: from which he drew all those words that mean nothing, or almost nothing, but which serve better than others to dazzle the naïve, the ignorant…” — That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, Carlo Emilio Gadda
An appetizer: some other selected quotes.
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