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Tom Wolfe Weighs In On The Meaning Of Life

Started by cherbert · 10 months ago

Tom Wolfe is one of my favorite authors. He wrote lots of amazing stuff, including Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man In Full, I am Charlotte Simmons, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The New Journalism and many others.
I have no idea when he wrote this article, but anyone interested in t ... Continue reading »

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  • The limits of my brain bar me from understanding your meniacal compulsion to engage in online intellecutal masturbation. It all strikes me as wonderfully vainglorious and self-indulgent. While you digest the results of an online poll of your growing collection of friends' thoughts on the existence of god, you snooze through the signs of god all around you - spring in the Upper Valley, a human life in your wife's womb, the glitter from the sun across a lake while sharing a beer with a close friend.

    You wonder about the meaning of life? The existence of god?

    Close your lap-tap. Allow the people who care about you to hear the joy in your voice as you recount your adventures in life.

    There it is.

    Required Reading for Chris:
    Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
    The Grand Inquisitor from The Brothers Karamazov

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