"... ... ... And we say that humanity, and we fill our mouths to say humanity, beautiful word, full of wind, divided into five categories: men, mezz'uomini, the ominicchi, i (with all due respect) pigliainculo and quaquaraquà. Very few men; mezz'uomini the few that I be content to stop with mezz'uomini humanity. But no, falls even more down to ominicchi: they are like children who think they are great, monkeys that make the same moves of the great. And even further down: the pigliainculo, ranging becoming an army. And finally, the quaquaraquà: they should live with the ducks in the puddles, that their life has no more sense and more an expression of the ducks. "
... how sad!
Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl "
