The Good Soldier Svejk

After his departure the three agreed that Svejk was a patent imbecile and idiot according to all the natural laws invented by the luminaries of psychiatry.

The report was passed to the examining magistrate contained inter alia the following:

The undersigned medical experts certify the complete mental feebleness and congenital idiocy of Josef Svejk, who appeared before the aforesaid commission and expressed himself in terms such as: 'Long live our Emperor Franz Joseph 1', which utterance is sufficient to illuminate the state of mind of Josef Svejk as that of a patent imbecile.