Word: solipsistic
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...Solipsist. Such statements suggest that Ionesco has turned his malaise into an esthetic principle. "Pain, grief, failure, have always seemed to me truer than success or pleasure," he says. It is this principle that leads him to so much disjointed and self-pitying maundering. As a devout solipsist, he feels that the answer to his despair must come from within himself. As an obsessed truth seeker, however, he will be satisfied with nothing less than some externally produced revelation. Alcohol and Martin Buber's transcendant optimism provide only temporary relief...
...there are other defects for which no such excuse can be offered. The language is seldom precise and sometimes implausible. Chace writes, for example, "Justin returned to his shaving and tried to change his thoughts by applying alcohol and powder to his skin." Whether or not Justin is a solipsist, the relationship between his facial activity and his mental processes is extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving an effect on the reader, but the indiscriminate camera throwing together instants unrelated both to each other and to any apparent overall objective...
...paper's doctor of philology, in charge of amputating letters from words. One day last week, Astley-Cock's byline heralded the latest additions to the Trib's simplified spelling list-one of the most formidable latitudes of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's strange, solipsist world...
This is the fourth book* that gives the customers reason to stare hard at Wallace Stevens, famed poetical solipsist who wears the world in his hat. For many years this startling person has spent his normal working hours disguised as a lawyer-employe of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of which he is vice president. Betweenwhiles Stevens, now aged 63, has kept adding to the bulk and scope of his poetical testament...