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519 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1959
Loving and loathing; accepting and rejecting; grasping and disdaining; longing and spurning: this is the disease of the mind.
Think of the military, with their perpetual talk of the enemy. Think of the clergy, with their perpetual talk of sin and damnation. Think of the legal fraternity, with their perpetual talk of fine and imprisonment. Think of the medical profession, with their perpetual talk of disease and death. And our educators, the greatest fools ever, with their parrot-like rote and their innate inability to accept any idea unless it be a hundred or a thousand years old. As for those who govern the world, there you have the most dishonest, the most hypocritical, the most deluded and the most unimaginative beings imaginable.
Often, after a session with Spengler or Elie Faure, I would throw myself on the bed fully clothed and, instead of musing about ancient cultures, I would find myself groping through a labyrinthian world of fabrications. Neither of them seems capable of telling the truth, even about such a simple matter as going to the toilet.
با خودم گفتم هدف واقعیا� از این کار فقط- «فقط!» -شرح حکایت ناکامیه� و بختبرگشتگیهای� است.(ص۲۴۶)
نویسنده هم مثل میمون به همه جا آویزان میشود� حال آن که درست زیر پای او، زندگی با شور و بلوایی پیوسته و مدام در جریان است.(ص ۳۶۹)