October 2010
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The Outsider: Colin Wilson
Bertonneau:
Especially for people under the age of thirty the name Colin Wilson (born 1931) and the label “The New Existentialism” might not ring a bell. A few older people will remember Wilson, but will have retained no suspicion what the label designates; or they might vaguely recall the Icarus-flight of a young author in the late 1950s who soared up and, as far as most of the reading...
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“The French poet Paul Valéry once said that he could never write a novel because sooner or later he would find himself setting down such a sentence as “The marquise went out at five o’clock.” Why did the marquise leave at five? he wondered. Why not at six or seven? In fact, why did she go out at all? And why a “marquise”? Why not a duchess or a washerwoman? The...
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Limitations are the greatest assets in producing a...
“It seems to me that the personal limitations each individual is endowed with is the only true evaluation one must adjust to. I know this sounds complicated but it is about the only yardstick that makes sense. Limitations, honestly faced, are the greatest assets in producing a work of art. I am always impressed by ones ability to push his limitations to unknown, unexplored, realms...
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listening to "DJ Shadow - 02 Building Steam With A... →
♫ DJ Shadow – Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
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listening to "Jean-Luc Ponty - Computer... →
♫ Jean-Luc Ponty – Computer Incantations For World Peace (1983)
