From [link|http://www.topica.com/lists/egr/read/message.html?mid=802826007&sort=d&start=135|here]:

It seems that Alfred Schopenhauer (1788-1860), by all accounts, an all-around hateful uphocking of subhuman phlegm, wrote a little vignette about porcupines based on horribly corrupted translations of Vedic and Buddhist texts, on which he in turn based his hugely influential and oddly popular philosophy of constipated pessimism and total despair.

PS: It's not really about Schopenhauer. This little bio was very tangential. I just liked the "hateful uphocking" bit.