But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscen… - Antonin Artaud

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

All true language
is incomprehensible,
Like the chatter
of a beggar’s teeth.