Whenever men with book learning used big words in dealing with him, he came out the loser. It startled him just to hear those words. Obviously they were just a cover for robbery. But they sounded nice.
—Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian novelist, Vidas secas, 1938

Posted on November 6, 1998 at 10:06 AM

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