“No one appreciates my deeply enriching works of art,” Elmo announced with a deep sigh.

Shahzad kept his silence upon hearing this, leaving Confucius to reply: “The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”

There was a long pause, and a great deal of hmming, before Elmo finally answered: “What if I just started doing art-themed crimes?”

From “The Analects of Shahzad,”
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