Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignorant in the extreme." The reason for this is that "the United States is a country full of secret agents. Political persecution is perpetrated in an endless stream." Ch'ang tells his readers that "whoever utters the slightest sound of discontent is immediately suspected as a communist...His fate is thus sealed...
This may be the fate of man. His previously valuable predatory instincts may get the better of him. And then, too, certain qualities of the predatory life--aggressiveness, for instance--are still useful to him. On the threshold of space, it would not do for man to lose all his predatory qualities...
...suffered under a pagan god as he had suffered from the Christian God. told him: "Through his curse you live a life with god . . . Perhaps one day he will bless you instead of cursing you. But whatever you may do, your fate will be forever bound up with god, your soul forever filled with god." The sibyl's prophecy is fulfilled in Lagerkvist's new book, in which god finally allows Ahasuerus to die. Like Lagerkvist's other novels, this is written in the prose of parables, plain and simple, pared to the essential scene and angle...
...cuts them off from the outside world. Several of them die, a few manage to return to everyday life, and two of them are transported to a peculiar, bucolic, almost supernatural existence in a valley of plenty from which, however, there is no returning to the outer world. The fate of each-death, life, or superlife -is shown to be subtly appropriate...
...everyone inevitably weaves his own destiny: "We live by a very exacting kind of poetic logic-since we get exactly what we ask for, no more, and no less." But only in the threatening dark of the labyrinth does man achieve the enlightenment with which to perceive his own fate...