Elias Canetti Quote

He is a lesser figure than X —how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.


J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 74 - Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)


He is a lesser figure than X —how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.

He is a lesser figure than X —how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.

He is a lesser figure than X —how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.

He is a lesser figure than X —how it pleases an Englishman to say that! Never suspecting what basement that would put him in, a wood louse.