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Unattainable Ideal
Saul Bellow's Nobel Prize speech (from 1976):
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice.
I've never read any of his books. But that's a brilliant, brave, beautiful speech. Go and read it, and be smarter than you are now.
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice.
I've never read any of his books. But that's a brilliant, brave, beautiful speech. Go and read it, and be smarter than you are now.
