The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.
Freya StarkTidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.
Freya StarkStyle is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
Freya Starkadvertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.
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