'The distress and suspicion normal persons give rise to in a world where only the Exceptional arouses interest, in all its varieties. Thus it comes about that in the upright man one is obliged to see the scoundrel of tomorrow, or a scoundrel who's concealing himself, while in the scoundrel of today one discovers inspiring qualities. Abel's brain is subjected to an autopsy, Cain is invited to write his memoirs.'
from a note in the 1956-1960 section of Occasional Notebooks, in The Via Veneto Papers by Ennio Flaiano
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