“To combat pragmatism and the horrible tendency to achieve useful purposes, my elder cousin proposes the procedure of pulling out a nice hair from the head, knotting it in the middle and droping it gently down the hole in the sink. If the hair gets caught in the grid that usually fills in these holes, it will just take to open the tap a little to lose sight of it.”
Historias de Cronopios y de Famas (1962)
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“I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.”
As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/20/italy
2001
Act IV, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)