The formalistic school should therefore accord some recognition to intuitionism, instead of polemicizing against it in sneering tones, while not even observing proper mention of authorship.
When your confidence is already sapped by sneering, sideways glances and unhelpful observations of your youthfulness, such proclamations would be very unhelpful, indeed.
Upon trying to leave the alley, however, the character is confronted by a voice sneering that this is a lie and threatening dire consequences if the truth is not told.