Badiou

SOMEONE STARTS TALKING TO YOU ABOUT PHILOSOPHY AND YOU REPLY "HEADACHE," OR THEY TALK ABOUT PAINTING AND YOU RATTLE OFF ALL YOUR LITTLE BUMPS AND BRUISES, AND GOD FORBID THEY SHOULD TRY TO DISCUSS SERIAL MUSIC, WELL, THEN YOU START IN ON THE WHOLE SAGA OF YOUR BOUTS OF DIARRHEA AND LUMBAGO.