In a Nutshell

 
 
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
 
In speaking of intelligentsia’s debt of guilt to the nation, he kept using two terms that I thought were synonyms – ‘intelligentsia’ and ‘intellectuals’.  After a while I just had to ask:
 
‘But what difference is there between a member of the intelligentsia and an intellectual?”
 
‘There’s a very big difference,’ [...]

Posted on November 18th, 2009 under Literature, Quotes. Tags: "The Sacred Book of Werewolf", intellectual, intelligence, intelligent, intelligentsia, skills, Victor Pelevin. Comments: None