• His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."

    Donald Barthelme: His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." 
"The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."
    "Florence Green is 81". "Come Back, Dr. Caligari". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1964.