"The Secret Police said 'We have secrets. We have many secrets. We desire all secrets. We do not have your secrets and that is what we are after, your secrets.

"The Secret Police said 'We have secrets. We have many secrets. We desire all secrets. We do not have your secrets and that is what we are after, your secrets. ... However our mood is melancholy. There is a secret sigh that we sigh, secretly. We yearn to be known, acknowledged, admired even. What is the good of omnipotence if nobody knows? However that is a secret, that sorrow."' "Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces an Airplane Between Milbertshofen and Cambrai, March 1916", Donald Barthelme