It seems I am in violation of maxim #30 of Baltasar
Gracian's the Art of Worldly wisdom.
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30. Have nothing to do with disreputable occupations. And have still less to do
with fads that bring more notoriety than good reputation. There are many
fanciful sects, and the prudent person flees from them all. There are people
with bizarre tastes that always take to heart everything that wise people
repudiate. They live in love with eccentricity, and this may make them well
known indeed but more as an object of ridicule than of good reputation. A
cautious person does not make public his pursuit of wisdom, still less those
matters that make him or his followers seem ridiculous. These need not be
specified - common contempt has sufficiently singled them out.
