the book of stones, το βιβλίο των λίθων
…There are intellectual activities where it is not the big books but the short monographs or articles that constitute a man’s proud achievement. If someone were to discover, for instance, that under hitherto unobserved circumstances stones were able to speak, it would take only a few pages to describe and explain so earth-shattering a phenomenon.
from Robert Musil’s The man without qualities, p. 264
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