“Consider your self-respect, your pride. Do not lose yourself in an alien world. Avoid that swamp, that isle of Circe – for you are not Odysseus enough to dwell there unharmed. You will walk on all fours, you are tipping down onto your front limbs already, and will soon begin to grunt – beware!”

“Consider your self-respect, your pride. Do not lose yourself in an alien world. Avoid that swamp, that isle of Circe – for you are not Odysseus enough to dwell there unharmed. You will walk on all fours, you are tipping down onto your front limbs already, and will soon begin to grunt – beware!”

— Thomas Mann