“Let him talk as he will!” scoffed Zamp. “His motives are not at all obscure.”
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Chapter 10 (p. 108)Jack Vance
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
In short, all suicides of the insane are either devoid of any motive or determined by purely imaginary motives. Now, many voluntary deaths fall into neither category; the majority have motives, and motives not unfounded in reality. Not every suicide can therefore be considered insane, without doing violence to language.
Emile Durkheim
I am never needlessly obscure—I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.
Donald Barthelme
I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
Jack Vance
On the contrary, it's because someone knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance... so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!
Richard Feynman
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