through confusion wisdom


Mary the maid, in Ionesco's The Bald Soprano:

Who has any interest in prolonging [faire durer] this confusion? I don't know.  Let's not try to know. Let's leave things as they are.

[above rendering taken from this]


Later in the play:

Mr. Smith: Take a circle, caress it, and it will turn vicious.

one of the most observant or at least funniest works of art inspired by the attempt (and often failure) to learn a new language.