Sublime

… Comme ces livres où trop de passages sont soulignés au crayon pour qu’on ait bonne opinion du goût et de l’esprit du lecteur.

“Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?” “I’ve

But still he has something she lacks, an inner life that does not include the other person.

I try imagining myself in 40 years’ time, but it’s like trying to picture what lies beyond the universe.

What is socially humdrum is produced by what is individually heroic; and a city is made not merely of citizens but knight–errants.

Therefore impossible. Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape.