Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Cheerful pessimism........

     "American literary figures have tended to wear their ontological pessimism more cheerfully.  The playwright Tennessee Williams, for example, simply observed that 'a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff nature replaces it with,' and then had another whiskey."
-Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?

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