15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
The challenge arises from the fact that, upon inspection, there is no single and static self but a multitude of selves constellating at any given moment into a transient totality, only to reconfigure again in the next situation, the next set of expectations, the next undulation of biochemistry. This troubles us, for without the sense of a solid sel... See more
Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace
In short I tried to think. I failed. My attention veered inexorably back to the specific, to the tangible…All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was. Which was a writer. By which I mean not a “good” writer or a,“bad” writer but simply a writer, a person whose most abso
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