People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.
Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.