[BNP/E3, 55E – 32^v]

Mr. Jones was an author and an easily pleased man; he was very pleased when he could quote something. He loved quoting, quoting things he had read, things that he had not read, thing neither he nor anyone else had read – and so on, if anything else there be. But really, the greatest pleasure he had was such he could make a tangible, verifiable, but remote quotation. Something Talmudic, Oriental, anti-classic; some little-known romanticist, some extinguished novelist – there, in the quotation thereof the kernel of pleasure lay.