Word: meaninglessness
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...cruel and long-range affair," Sartre has said. Always faithful in this affair, never publicly flirting with hope or grace (as did his fellow existentialist and fellow Nobel winner Albert Camus), Sartre takes atheism to its grim limits. Man as he sees him is alone in an absurd and meaningless universe...
...cool, the woman shovels sand into buckets and sends the buckets up the rope. If no sand comes out of the pit, she explains, no food will be sent back in return. The man is aghast. "Don't you feel that all this is meaningless?" he asks. "Moving sand to live, living to move sand...
...nothing to say. Ever since the first publication of La Nausee (1938) Sartre has subjected himself to a rigorous and naked self-examination and society to a penetrating cross-examination. He values nothing but life itself which at best seems to be nothing more than the meaningless least common denominator of the world around him. What meaning, then, could a little old' Nobel Prize have? Obviously none. So why not refuse it and prove a point? Well, that is just what he did, but just what did he prove...
...cleverness is, however, limited and his sick humor soon become tiresome. Mutilation of words and syntax, here admittedly meaningless, can be amusing. In this book it seems too contrived and heavy handed. Beatle meaninglessness was hilarious in A Hard Day's Night--that title itself means nothing. But the concentrated dose of it in Lennon's volume is too much. He goes on and on, throwing around words growing less imaginative...
Most egregious of all, however, is your statement, either incredibly naive of incredibly uniformed, that "Keating's defeat would be almost meaningless in terms of national politics." This opinion is indeed absurd. Keating's defeat would immediately and most joyously be recognised by the pro-Goldwater forces as the defeat of a dedicated enemy. In the wake of San Francisco, the forces trying to recall the Republican party to its senses are all too weak already; Keating's loss would perhaps be fatal. I hope no one assumes that an all-powerful Democratic party would be fine for the United...