“The English words politesse and etiquette came to us from French without undergoing any changes. Jean-Paul Sartre uses these concepts in an essay on the life and work of Stéphane Mallarmé, describing the poet's rebellion against the world: He does not blow up the world: he places it in brackets. He chooses the terror of politeness; with things, with people, with himself, he always maintains this barely noticeable distance. Enclose an object in parentheses. Leave it as an afterthought. Decentre. For an artist who masters charming and destructive irony, deliberate politeness and restraint expose violence so completely and so obviously that the very idea of violence evokes only calm and equanimity. This is terrorism in the form of social judo.”