| What is the use of writing? Not to enable us to avoid life's unpleasantnesses, but to make us think about them. Sentences help us to see into souls, words help us to write our own future. Literature, rather than taking us into a fictional dream world, is often a dissipation of our illusions; it brings us back to the here and now, back to the coded profusion of human existence. Peter Seeberg, obsessed with French literature, has put together a vision of reality from his reading of contemporary novels. What did he learn? That life is not long enough to learn everything, that our clumsy hands never grasp more than fragments of the truth and that, all in all, knowing man and his folly, it is better that he does not have all the answers. That is pure wisdom. That is a view that will enable us to live better. If we accept it. |
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