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July 2011

31 posts

‘Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence; tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.’ George Santayana

Salinger’s protagonist is driven mad by the ugliness in life. What drives you nuts? The human predicament: the fact that we’re living in a nightmare that everyone is making excuses for and having to find ways to sugarcoat. And the fact that life, at its best, is a pretty horrible proposition. But people’s behavior makes it much, much worse than it has to be. from an interview with Woody...