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« on: March 30, 2021, 09:04:11 pm »
It is interesting to note that the mother is dead.  In Steve Toltz's "A Fraction of the Whole," he mentions this is often the case in novels.

Toltz also explains in that novel how all literature is commentary on previously existing literature.   In Gargoyles, Thomas Bernhard has the doctor (the protagonist's father) carrying around a few books ... Kant, Nietzsche, etc ... [I sure hope he gets to Schopenhauer!].   ;D

Reading this forces me to confront the absence of "philosophical friendships" in my actual monkey-sphere.   I must never take this message board for granted. 

I do not take my philosophical friendships on this message board for granted.

It may be our tragic fate - that our outsider status in our respective societies is part of some kind of natural aristocracy, and that we are destined to be very lonely men, especially in the company of others.   Our isolation is of a spiritual nature.

« Last Edit: March 30, 2021, 09:10:30 pm by Sticks and Stones »
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