Month: March 2016

God Is a Question, Not an Answer

By William Irwin March 26, 2016 、 Near end of Albert Camus’s existentialist novel “The Stranger,” Meursault, the protagonist, is visited by a priest who offers him comfort in the face of his impending execution. Meursault, who has not cared about anything up to this point, wants none of it. He is an atheist in…

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mmg62ui35gyu24: Walter Benjamin once said that a child’s first experience of the world is not his realization that “adults are stronger but rather that he cannot make magic.” The statement was made under the influence of a twenty-miligram dose of mescaline, but that does not make it any less salient. –Agamben, Profanations

King Lear, Act 1, Sc. IV

Fool Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a bitter fool and a sweet fool? KING LEAR No, lad; teach me. Fool That lord that counsell’d thee To give away thy land, Come place him here by me, Do thou for him stand: The sweet and bitter fool Will presently appear; The one in…

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