I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night af...ter night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would... certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When looking over a list of men's names in a foreign language, as of military officers, or of authors who have written on a partic...ular subject, I am reminded once more that there is nothing in a name.... It is as if they had been named by the child's rigmarole, Iery wiery ichery van, tittle-tol-tan. I see in my mind a herd of wild creatures swarming over the earth, and to each the herdsman has affixed some barbarous sound in his own dialect. The names of men are, of course, as cheap and meaningless as Bose and Tray, the names of dogs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »