Status Updates From La broma / The Joke: A Nove...

“…what do I care if joy is out of fashion nowadays, maybe I'm just an idiot, but they're idiots too with their fashionable skepticism, why shouldn't I trade my idiocy for theirs…” (p. 15)

“A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful form; they resemble each other and there is nothing easier than to mistake one for the other.” (p. 8)