Then she looked among the strangers, and found as usual, the fierce neurotics, pretending calm, liking the country only in horror of the city, of the sound of their own voices which had set the tone and pitch... .
For Umberto Eco, an Italian novelist and philosopher, these li'l folks were nothing less than " monstrous infantile reductions of all the neuroses of a modern citizen of industrial civilisation" .
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