“Myrna’s psyche is only capable of dealing with water in an oral context.”

He was one of that numberless and motley legion of crass, wilting halfwits – half-educated, pig-headed fools – who are always the first to jump on the latest intellectual bandwagon, so as to cheapen every idea right away and reduce to ridicule whatever they venerate, however sincerely.

Lumpenism: the childhood syndrome of intellectuals.