Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco6/1/2023 The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic on the other hand, doesn’t concern himself at all with logic he works by short circuits. The moron proves his thesis he has logic, however twisted it may be. He is a moron who doesn’t know the ropes. Like the fellow who says that all dogs are pets and all dogs bark, and cats are pets, too, therefore cats bark…Morons will occasionally say something that’s right, but they say it for the wrong reason…A lunatic is easily recognized. They offend all the rules of conversation, and when they really offend, they’re magnificent…Morons never do the wrong thing. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation…Fools don’t claim that cats bark, but they talk about cats when everyone else is talking about dogs. “There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics…Cretins don’t even talk they sort of slobber and stumble…Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions.
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