Yes indeed, Sartre is a heavy hitter too. I think Nausea permanently
affected the way I view my surroundings. If I remember correctly, I didn't
want to leave the house for a week.
Justin
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Robert Perry wrote:
> let us not forget sartre for human psychology. god i love the first
> in the trilogy the roads to freedom entitled the age of reason.
> whoo! that book has some wonderful fucked up people in it.
> robert
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> > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 1:30 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [MMouse]: coupland and authors
> >
> >
> > Ah, your muddled comments are amusing me. Dostoyevsky hits human nature
> > better
> > than 90% of the hacks that pass for "modern writers." It isn't "who we
> > were,"
> > it's who we are... that's the nature of good literature, it doesn't limit
> > itself to the time in which it was written.
> >
> > Self-affirmingly meditative,
> > J.
> >
> > "Public opinion is always right, especially when it's really idiotic."
> > L.F. Celine
> >
> >
> >
> > > > to cover 20th century authors, and before that,
> > > > Fyodor Mikhailovich D., any and all...
> > >
> > > I really am almost exclusively interested in modern writing - which is
> > > not to say anything bad about pre-20th century work, just that I'm not
> > > in 2 it. I'm interested in literature that explores who we are, who
> > > we've become recently - not who we were, because I don't believe it's
> > > possible to truly comprehend who we were just by reading literature -
> > > the only reason I can comprehend "who we are" (humanity) in modern works
> > > is because I already know - in a sense I think literature should be
> > > self-affirming or, more precisely, meditative - literature should be
> > > gospel, not documentary.
> >
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