HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!