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Estrangement

Se fet mun quer dolent,

Quant me purpens,

Que jo ai gaste mun tens

Sanz rimer de aucun sens

The poet ‘Richard’, in E. M. Stengel (ed.) Codicem manu scriptum Digby 86 in bibliotheca bodleiana asservatum (Halle, 1871), p. 118

Nonsense (when all is said and done) is still nonsense. But the study of nonsense, that is science.

Saul Lieberman, introducing Gershom Scholem’s lectures on the Cabbala: quoted in S. Schama, Landscape and Memory (London, 1995), p. 134