From Krzhizhanovsky's "The Unbitten Elbow"
It began like this: The fashionable speaker Eustace Kint, who rose to fame through the ears of elderly but wealthy ladies, was taken by friends after a birthday lunch -- by chance, on a lark -- to the circus. A professional philosopher, Kint caught the elbow-eater's metaphysical meaning right off the bat. The very next morning he sat down to write an article on "The Principles of Unbitability." Kint, who only a few years before had trumped the tired motto "Back to Kant" with his new and now wildly popular "Forward to Kint," wrote with elegant ease and rhetorical flourishes. (He once remarked, to thunderous applause, that "philosophers, when speaking to people about the world, see the world, but they do not see that their listeners, located in that same world, five steps away from them, are bored to tears.") After a vivid description of the man-verus-elbow contest, Kint generalized the fact and, hypostatizing it, dubbed this act ...