Sublime

When

Proust était resté radicalement européen, un des derniers Européens avec Thomas Mann ; ce qu'il écrivait n'avait plus aucun rapport avec une réalité quelconque. La phrase sur la duchesse de Guermantes restait magnifique, évidemment. Il n'empêche que tout cela devenait un peu déprimant, et j'ai fini par me tourner vers Baudelaire. L'angoisse, la mor

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

I knock everything to pieces you knock everything to pieces, he knocks everything to pieces.

Now of all the great writers of the world, Goethe is admittedly the greatest teacher. He is essentially and frankly didactic; and nowhere is there so large and worthy a body of literature from a single pen which is informed with so high and so serious a purpose.

learning about these people.

“I find it odd,” said Fräulein Bürstner, “to be forced to forbid you to do something your own conscience should forbid, namely, to enter my room when I’m away.”

Ballard's novel paints a dark dystopian picture — the architecture of a single residential tower becomes the driving force for mysterious changes of the tenants behaviour.