Quotation by Ernest Gellner

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
Ernest Gellner (b. 1925), British anthropologist, philosopher. "The Late Show," October 15, 1992, BBC2 television broadcast. Quoted in Observer Review (London, October 18, 1992).
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