• Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

    Joris-Karl Huysmans: Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.
    Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.7, Booklassic