Now the fact that something can be at the same time obvious and incomprehensible is repugnant to us precisely because it places a brutal obstacle in the way of the exercise of our own subtlety. We need things that are true, but are explained; or alternatively, things which are incomprehensible, but enriched by an infinite number of commentaries. But only to be able to offer a banal commentary (at any rate so far as the content is concerned) on a thing which is incomprehensible is profoundly humiliating to us and we refuse to listen to anybody talking about it.