Word: passionlessness
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...would be like adequately describing one's sensations when high on drugs to someone who's straight. When Allens tells you of his visitation from Blake, or proclaims, "I have seen God; I saw him in a room in Harlem," he is high on his own soul. You, you passionless bourgeois, you're straight. Can you think of a better place in this shell-shocked...
Horowitz's "A La Tarde Tourmalina" is a genuinely enjoyable story. The ending is a bit abrupt--an apparent icebox devours the narrator--and there isn't exactly a plot, but several incidents and patches of conversation are quite amusing. Two of the characters--a handsome, passionless perfectionist and his beautiful, passionless mistress--seem rather familiar, but the other two are engaging. The writing is generally vigorous, at times excellent...
...Reason Begins, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the first volume of a trilogy with which he hopes to complete his formidable Story of Civilization, the author (assisted by his wife) examines the 16th and 17th centuries with admirably balanced but sometimes passionless rationalism...
...Reason Begins, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the first volume of a trilogy with which he hopes to complete his formidable Story of Civilization, the author (assisted by his wife) examines the 16th and 17th centuries with admirably balanced but sometimes passionless rationalism. He finds the whole period marked by "the rise of murderous nationalism and the decline of murderous theologies...
...Reason Begins, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the first volume of a trilogy with which he hopes to complete his vast and generally excellent Story of Civilization, the author (assisted by his wife) examines the 16th and 17th centuries with admirably balanced but sometimes passionless rationalism. He finds the whole period marked by "the rise of murderous nationalism and the decline of murderous theologies...