"a captivating oddity, a monolithic confession or lamentation, an existential interrogation inhabited with flashbacks, foibles, sickness, death, hallucination, mental aberration, religion and belief […] exquisitely weird"
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Museum guides are nothing but conceited art twaddlers who do not have the faintest idea about art but unscrupulously exploit art with their distasteful twaddle.
Admiration... is not just the characteristic of the so-called uneducated, quite the opposite, it is also to a quite frightful, yes, literally a frightening degree, a characteristic of the so-called educated, which is a lot more revolting still.
People enter every church and every museum as though with a rucksack full of admiration, and for that reason they always have that revolting stooping way of walking.
You call a good man your friend, and the next thing you know he lets himself be made an honorary professor and from then on calls himself professor and has Professor printed on his notepaper.
Everything in the Vatican is ridiculous once you have freed yourself of the Catholic lies about history, Catholic sentimentality about history, of the Catholic officiousness about world history.