“Life is meaningless”, Leo Tolstoy, 1884
☛ Hannah and Her Sisters by Woody Allen, United-States, 1986, @ 00:59:38. IMDb. • • • In The Sense of the World first published in French in 1993, Jean-Luc Nancy opens with the following observation: There is no longer any world: no longer a mundus, a cosmos, a composed and complete order (from) within which […]
“Night Shadows” by Edward Hopper, 1921
☛ Whitney Museum of American Art: Edward Hopper, “Night Shadows”, etching: plate, 6 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (17.5 × 21 cm); sheet, 13 5/16 × 14 1/2 in. (33.8 × 36.8 cm), 1921. Josephine N. Hopper Bequest, no. 70.1048. © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper. • • • What I find interesting in this […]
“On Madness” or “On Insanity” by Leo Tolstoy, 1910
It is difficult for people of the present age not only to understand the cause of their miserable condition, but even to grasp the fact that their condition is miserable. This is chiefly due to the principal calamity of the age which is called progress and which manifests itself in a feverish anxiety, hurry, strenuous […]
