“In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he’s standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he’ll be smaller than the others”

—  José Saramago , book The Cave

Source: The Cave (2000), p. 60 (Vintage 2003)

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