Nostalgic Postmodernism – The Victorian Tradition and the Contemporary British Novel – Christian Gutleben
The World that is the Book – Paul Auster’s Fiction – Aliki Varvogli
Metafiction – The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction – Patricia Waugh
Negotiating Sexual Idioms – Marie Luise Kohlke (Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel)
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends,
They are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors,
And the most patient of teachers.
I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
(Carl Jung)
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
(Carl Jung)
He who fights with monsters
might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you.
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Why? How on Earth can evil ever be good?
An Evil Thought Experiment: A world exists called Goodyworld, a place where evil does not exist. Goodyworld is inhabited by the Goodians.
The Goodians, then, do not have free will. For free will implies considering all possibilities, even evil ones. And evil is not permitted on Goodyworld.
Therefore, if one wishes to have free will, one must accept evil as, literally, a necessary evil.
