"When I hear someone exclaim their passion for a subject, a line of work, a practice, I don’t hear the rumbling of a core but the rustling of curtains."
There ya go with some hot Nietzschean aphorism action... or maybe it's more Oscar Wilde? How effete are you feeling right now? Or how "tramping through the Alps with rheumatic fever"?
Seriously tho, the last paragraph truly shines with coruscating wit, "a life that might lean outward, now seems vacuumed of power, as if strife itself has been deprived of value" is really very brilliant, though perhaps for the uninitiated you could have elaborated more on what Houllebecq has to say on that score.
finished book, how much money do you think it would take for you to stop writing about money?
Money and work are important subjects regardless, not sure I would stop
"When I hear someone exclaim their passion for a subject, a line of work, a practice, I don’t hear the rumbling of a core but the rustling of curtains."
There ya go with some hot Nietzschean aphorism action... or maybe it's more Oscar Wilde? How effete are you feeling right now? Or how "tramping through the Alps with rheumatic fever"?
Seriously tho, the last paragraph truly shines with coruscating wit, "a life that might lean outward, now seems vacuumed of power, as if strife itself has been deprived of value" is really very brilliant, though perhaps for the uninitiated you could have elaborated more on what Houllebecq has to say on that score.
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