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.

This belief is usually a reaction to evil being described as destructive, where apologists claim that definition is in opposition to the natural pleasures and instincts of men and women.

Carl Jung, in his book Answer to Job and elsewhere, depicted evil as the „dark side of God“. People tend to believe evil is something external to them, because they project their shadow onto others. But from a psychological point of view to be evil is to refuse to acknowledge the weaknesses in one’s own personality. Jung interpreted the story of Jesus as an account of God facing his own shadow.