Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what do these versions of Genesis come to? After the big house and the big garden and the big animals, parties and people, what do most of the world's big spenders announce? That they are bored. Bored. The gods created men because they were bored, said Kierkegaard, so evidently the rich do likewise. They start out shimmying with hope and wind up hung over, believing with Baudelaire that the world will end by being swallowed up in an immense yawn. Their gardens are Candide's, not Eden's. Ever present at the creation, they find...
...addition of hydrogen ions. Percy's reduction of the alienated condition of man to a manageable chemical problem mocks not only all his own best writing but also some very intelligent philosophy which he has previously raided for the substance of his own work. Perhaps the self-appointed Kierkegaard of the mint julep golf circuit would blame his intellectual forebear's disaffection on anemia...
...addition of hydrogen ions. Percy's reduction of the alienated condition of man to a manageable chemical problem mocks not only all his own best writing but also some very intelligent philosophy which he has previously raided for the substance of his own work. Perhaps the self-appointed Kierkegaard of the mint julep golf circuit would blame his intellectual forebear's disaffection on anemia...
...addition of hydrogen ions. Percy's reduction of the alienated condition of man to a manageable chemical problem mocks not only all his own best writing but also some very intelligent philosophy which he has previously raided for the substance of his own work. Perhaps the self-appointed Kierkegaard of the mint julep golf circuit would blame his intellectual forebear's disaffection on anemia...
...years have been so busy making up the truth that they have not had much time for fiction. The names of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote spring immediately to mind, along with their catchy formulations, "nonfiction novel" and "the novel as history." Mailer, nurtured on emanations from Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard and Wilhelm Reich, can be an inspired explainer of the modern cloven spirit. Capote, the old Southern boy, steeped in regionalism and the oral tradition, is the storyteller, the Mother Goose of U.S. writing...