Puritanism – The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
‘Arcana Cœlestia’, in A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing, New York, 1949, ch. 30
Puritanism – The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
‘Arcana Cœlestia’, in A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing, New York, 1949, ch. 30
Paradójicamente, los detractores más implacables de las novelas policiales, suelen ser aquellas personas que más se deleitan en su lectura. Ello se debe, quizá, a un inconfesado prejuicio puritano: considerar que un acto puramente agradable no puede ser meritorio.
Jorge Luis Borges & Adolfo Bioy Casares, ‘El séptimo círculo’, in Museo: textos inéditos, Buenos Aires, 2002, p. 112