'They did not read Darwin, much preferring the Marquis de Sade', to paraphrase Hannah Arendt writing about the rise of Nazism in The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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The predisposition is dystopian, one bestseller after another that others have put their lives aside to write. Art is no longer made to be remembered,
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Reading the essays of Renata Adler while re-reading her novel "Speedboat", I foresee the time when I will lose an idea the moment after it comes to me and/or the very moment I honor
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One thing to be gleaned from the distant past is that it's neither better or worse than one thought it was at the time; it's a gnomic progression as witnessed by ancestors who guide us thoughtfully through piles of truths, half-truths, and lies.
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Novels are no longer allowed to begin with the words, 'once upon a time' but are now to begin with the words, 'everything happened so long ago.'
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