Andrew Gibson (1) (1949–)
Autore di James Joyce (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)
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Sull'Autore
Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Fonte dell'immagine: London University
Opere di Andrew Gibson
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1949
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
UK - Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- professor
children's book author - Organizzazioni
- Royal Holloway, University of London
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Utenti
- 105
- Popolarità
- #183,191
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 80
- Lingue
- 4
Human existence is a tragedy that need not have been, it not for the intervention in our lives of a single, calamitous event: the evolution of consciousness—consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect separated from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law.
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self. This accretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed, with total assurance, that we’re each somebody. When, in fact, everybody’s nobody.
When for you there is only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the felt in reference to the felt, only the cognized in reference to the cognized — there is no you here. When there is no you here, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor there nor between the two. That, just this, is the end of suffering.
We've all got what I call a life trap. There's gene deep certainty that things will be different. That you'll move to another city and meet people that will be the friends for the rest of your lives. That you'll fall in love and be fulfilled. Fucking fulfillment. And closure. Whatever the fuck those two fucking empty jars to hold this shit storm...Nothing's ever fulfilled! Until the very end. And closure. No. Nothing is ever over...… (altro)