And yet Moi also admits that he respects the way in which this nonconformist speaks honestly about his sloth, greed, and cowardice.31 Men like Lui, he continues, have one real asset: they have a liberating effect on those who take the time to speak with them. Highlighting and disrupting the “annoying uniformity that our education, social conventions, and codes of conduct have inculcated in us,”32 the Rameaus of the world function like a “pinch of yeast” that ferments among us, bringing out the truth.
