"There ought to be books for sleeping: in the most vicious style, with barely chewable words, long as fingers, words that twirl into incomprehensible silver curlicues at the end; consonantal knickknackeries (or at most an occasional dark vowel in): books to fight thoughts."

- Arno Schmidt

Picture: "Pietje Op Boeren Stoel" by Suze Robertson (1857-1922).