From The Man Without Qualities, Volume One, by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins
THESE DAYS
"These days, with everything in the world being talked about helter-skelter, when prophets and charlatans rely on the same phrases, except for certain subtle differences no busy man has the time to keep track of, and editors are constantly pestered with alarms that someone or other may be a genius, it is very hard to recognize the true value of a manor an idea; all one can do is keep an ear cocked for the moment when all the murmurs and whispers and shufflings at the editor's door grow loud enough to be admitted as the voice of the people."
From Chapter 77, Arnheim as the Darling of the Press
