Book Quote 2

from Bend Sinister also:
p. 58
"I must confess I admired you, Professor. Of course you were the only real man among those poor dear fossils. I understand, you do not see much of your colleagues, do you? Oh, you must have felt rather out of place---"
"Wrong again," said Krug, breaking his vow to keep silent. "I esteem my colleagues as I do my own self, I esteem them for two things: because they are able to find perfect felicity in specialized knowledge and because they are not apt to commit physical murder."
Dr. Alexander mistook this for one of the obsucre quips which, he had been told, Adam Krug liked to indulge in and laughed cautiously.

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That last paragraph describes well the reaction I get from people whenever I stray into what I would actually like to say, or even more tempting for me, something that I find ironic, or amusing. I feel, unfortunately, that real appreciators of me are few.