![]() ![]() ![]() “The powerful, as Nietzsche points out expressly, have no need to prove their might either to themselves or to others by oppressing or hurting others if they do hurt others, they do so incidentally in the process of using their power creatively they hurt others 'without thinking of it'. ![]() Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist Thus any affirmation of the present moment points far beyond the present - and it is a significant psychological corollary, on which Nietzsche frequently insists, that those who are dissatisfied with themselves usually project their dissatisfaction upon the world.” ![]() And our very existence, our being as we are, required that our parents had to choose each other, not anyone else, and beget us at the precise moment when we were actually begotten and the same consideration applies to their parents, and to all our ancestors, going back indefinitely. That I am here, now, doing this - that depends on an awe-inspiring series of antecedent events, on millions of seemingly accidental moves and decisions, both by myself and many others whose moves and decisions in turn depended on yet other people. “The projection of one's feeling toward oneself upon a cosmic scale may seem to hinge on a metaphysical premise, but it can be defended empirically. ![]()
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![]() One of the themes of these two novels is focussed on warfare, specifically on the anti-war sentiments of the authors. Most of the stories in this novel were based on the experiences of the narrator who talked about being an alien and having experienced travelling through time. ![]() On the other hand, the Slaughterhouse-Five is considered as an anti-war novel, and centers on the life of Billy Pilgrim. The war did not only deter them from pursuing their musical aspiration as a group, but it also shattered their dreams forever. ![]() ![]() It centers on a group of jazz musicians whose ambition to become great in their art was dampened by the war. The Half-blood Blues narrates the story of a black band who successfully recorded a jazz album in the midst of World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were no As, and Beckett came first, before Joseph Conrad and EM Forster. “Without thinking about which name might present the best opportunity for original research,” she said years later, “or even which I liked the most, I shuffled them into alphabetical order. ![]() ![]() She wrote the names of some possibilities on index cards.īeckett replied to Bair's letter and, to her shock, said, 'Any biographical information I possess is at your disposal,' adding that 'if you come to Paris I will see you' After making too-slow progress on a medieval-studies topic, she decided to turn to a 20th-century author instead. Having received a fellowship to do graduate study at Columbia University, in New York, she needed a research subject. She came to that decision somewhat serendipitously. ![]() The American writer, who died on Friday, called herself “an accidental biographer, one who had never read a biography before she decided that Samuel Beckett needed one and she was the person to write it”. Her daughter, Katney Bair, said the cause was heart failure. Deirdre Bair, who as an unknown writer half a century ago scored a coup by getting the reclusive Samuel Beckett to agree to let her write his biography, then secured the same permission from another towering literary figure, Simone de Beauvoir, has died at the age of 84. ![]() |