Sublime

Le plus célèbre porte-parole de « jeunes gens en colère », Colin Wilson, le salua comme « l’outsider romantique » et lui consacra tout un chapitre de son ambitieux essai de 1955 (paru en français sous le titre L’Homme en dehors, puisqu’il n’était pas question de l’appeler L’Étranger). Colin Wilson n’avait alors que vingt-quatre

the true aim of life is maximum self-expression.

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel

The next step into mystical states carries us into a realm that public opinion and ethical philosophy have long since branded as pathological, though private practice and certain lyrical strains of poetry seem still to bear witness to its ideality

callow,

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”