“Does anyone ever show any interest in them?”
“No. But an archive ought to be locked. The most interesting part of ours is the archive of unclaimed wisdom. But no-one shows any interest even in that archive. The letters are still unsorted. Wisdom, you know, is always unclaimed.”
“I would have liked to take a look, if possible.”
“Yes, of course! No need to ask!”
Here it was,
“The archive of unclaimed wisdom”.
The letters on the plasticy rectangular boards were transparent, even spectral.
Groucho Marx to Karl Marx: I never liked your theories, especially what your followers cooked up out of them, but I admit that behind the lowered iron curtain the play was greeted by a hundred percent hurrah.
Camus to Bakunin: A rebel is a man who says no. An intellectual is a man who, in a similar
