Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

Alas! The small things shall bring down the great things; a tooth triumphs over a whole carcass. The rat of the Nile destroys the crocodile, the swordfish kills the whale; the book will kill the edifice.

Note: In the modern world one could continue: The atom will destroy humankind, or perhaps the germ.

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