May 22, '06 -- Quotations

"Name me another country that has gone from barbarism to decadance without creating a civilization in between."

Oscar Wilde on American efficiency (LADY WINDEMERE'S FAN)


"I have come to believe the whole world is an enigma--a harmless enigma made terrible by our own mad attempt to interperet it as though it had some underlying truth."

Umberto Eco (FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM"