Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of his passages resembel those of Dostoevsky and Thomas Wolfe at their stream-of-consciousness best. But in a sense he transcends both; for while they mask themselves as characters in novels, Koestler admits that he is laying bare his soul before his readers. He also has the advantage (questionable to be sure) of a familiarity with Freudian psychoanalysis. One wonders whether the author has not gone a bit overboard when he uses this method to explain his youth in Budapest. It is difficult to believe that a man can become so detached from himself as to reveal...
Take for example the patriarchial hero of "East of Eden," Samuel Hamilton. Talented as a blacksmith and inventor, Samuel also "had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul...
Something snapped in Eaton's cranium. But he did not jump out of the window. His soul jumped out instead. He leaned forward. Utterance of some sort there must be. Had Eaton satire only lent him utterance, he might have said "when you call him, that, smile." Had Eaton ire only lent him utterance, he was. But neither instinct came alone; instead ire and satire met in one grand incandescence; and voicing this potent compound, as only Eaton can, he rasped forth the cry of Kent in one long lingering lung--"OH RINEHART...
Johnny: The soul is immortal and immaterial...
Into the flickering colors of the soul...