Djuna Barnes: "Kegilaan bagi kita berarti pembalikan; bagi orang-orang...

"Kegilaan bagi kita berarti pembalikan; bagi orang-orang seperti Una dan Lena itu berarti kemajuan. Sekarang paman mereka telah memasuki tanah di luar mereka, tanah mewah. Selama lima puluh tahun dia seperti mereka, diam, pekerja keras, tidak imajinatif. Lalu tiba-tiba, seperti seorang sarjana yang lulus sarjana, ia telah naik ke bentuk lain."

--- Djuna Barnes

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.