One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Erich Wasmann was an Austrian entomologist, specializing in ants and termites, and Jesuit priest. He described the phenomenon known as Wasmannian mimicry.
