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Solitude in Philosophy and Literature: The H. B. Acton Memorial Lecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Hywel D. Lewis
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‘I understand that the world was nothing, a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understand that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly—as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink.

—An ugly god pitifully dying in a tree.’

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 16: Philosophy and Literature , September 1983 , pp. 1 - 13
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1983

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