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...account for this biological anamoly in Homo sapiens, Storr proposed that the majority of humans posses a latently paranoid character, accepting absurd delusions about enemies and consequently projecting hostility. The origin of this paranoid state is an unconscious "memory of early infantile helplessness...
Crusoe II is alone and traveling fast on an interior journey. Gradually abandoning rationalism as flat and absurd, he whizzes through Descartes, Locke, Freud and existentialism, all experienced not as abstractions but as personal modes of apprehending himself and the mysterious island around him. Like Speranza, Tournier's novel is an island, unique, self-sufficient, imaginative, well worth exploring, and with a number of minor marvels to reveal...
Author Charyn knows how to make a pratfall out of a pitfall, how to convert sordid realism into a sort of surrealism. The residual moral is as harrowing as the punch line of a good black-humor joke is meant to be-what cruelly absurd ends men are capable of reaching simply by being cool and reasonable...
...more strictly would reduce the available housing stock, particularly in the critical low rent brackets. We don't want any of our citizens living in unsafe or unhealthy housing, but to force a family out of housing units because there are no screens, or because lighting is inadequate seems absurd in the context of our present crisis...
...feel like we are losing something that it was absurd to want in the first place. When you are in the Class of 1969, and you have told everyone who you are and why you do things, then you feel disillusioned with the world that you are facing. You feel disillusioned because someone has taken your illusions away. But there are others