“Unusually among modernist artists, this supposedpurveyorof nihilism was a militant of the left rather than the right.” Noun ▲ A person who spreads gossip “Yet her succession of popular novels and her culminating betrayal suggest her moral decline into apurveyorof gossip.” ...
no free media and ultimately no individual freedom or human rights. Into this truth vacuum will step glum cultures of nihilism, autocracy and death, similar to what we now have in Vladimir Putin’s dystopian Russia. Taking back control of the Internet is the battle of our time and the winne...
The Nicene Creed was a fresh and enduring confession made by Christians in the midst of a dying ancient world, and this word – being exactly what was needed! – contained the seeds of new life!: “Is not the Nicaeno-Constantinoplitan Creed perhaps the very word, the message which modern...
Almost nobody shares my strange combination of humorous nihilism and sensitive compassion. Few have stared so deep in the abyss, few combine my taste of pessimistic high-brow literature with scientific understanding and rationality. My world view, my value system, my individuality is unique and ...
In the face of nihilism, love’s blindness makes the world go round. In writing or living for love of the world we deflate customary self-importance. We fail to see the world as our personal adversary or personal opportunity. In seeing our smallness in the scheme of things, as under the...
Almost nobody shares my strange combination of humorous nihilism and sensitive compassion. Few have stared so deep in the abyss, few combine my taste of pessimistic high-brow literature with scientific understanding and rationality. My world view, my value system, my individuality is unique and ...
It shall be done, my prince. The word will spread. But may we find the balance, ere we break. Nydia: Beware, dear knights, for trust once lost is sharp. The kingdoms will resist, but heed my words, Their greed had cracked the foundation deep. ...
when the not-quite-protagonist figures out the evil solution to the problem he faces. But this reading was also inspired by Clive James’ Latest Readings, where he found himself returning to Conrad’s novels. The dovetailing of nihilism, cynicism and domesticity makes the novel horrifying. Conra...