The Savage Detectives: A Novel

Stultorum plena sunt omnia,

see everything as if he were Dante and he’d just returned from hell, or not Dante, I mean, but Virgil himself, such a sensitive boy,

Mentally, I thanked him for it, because if there’s anything I hate it’s a hysterical Frenchman.

Have you ever tried such a thing? I have, and it’s impossible, something only a few natural writers or journalists can do, be talking about politics, for example, and at the same time writing a little article on gardening or spondaic hexameters (which I can tell you, boys, are a rare phenomenon).

Motherfucking hemorrhoid-licking old bastard,

Freedom is like a prime number.

Odero, si potero. Si non, invitus amabo.

Lumpenism: the childhood syndrome of intellectuals.

Invidia ceu fulmine summa vaporant.