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Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think
Re John Updike's Toward the End of Time
Re John Updike's Toward the End of Time
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[...] When a solipsist dies, after all, everything goes with him. [...]
just a great line
[...] When a solipsist dies, after all, everything goes with him. [...]
just a great line
satyriasis
(en)
uncontrollable or excessive sexual desire in a man
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though always heterosexual to the point of satyriasis, they especially don’t love women
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though always heterosexual to the point of satyriasis, they especially don’t love women
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anomie
(en)
lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide
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today’s subforties have very different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without even once having loved something more than yourself
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today’s subforties have very different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without even once having loved something more than yourself
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bathos
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(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
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The clunky bathos of this novel seems to have infected even the line-by-line prose, Updike’s great strength for almost forty years.
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The clunky bathos of this novel seems to have infected even the line-by-line prose, Updike’s great strength for almost forty years.
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