I love to think about these things, but may try to avoid tackling them directly in my story. We’ll see! I’m going to try to write a draft after Christmas.
Tolstoy devoted many pages in “War and Peace” to lectures about how the course of history was determined by societal forces, and the idea that “great men” could shape history was illusion. (He should have stuck to writing the story.)
The faith of the Christian and the faith of the atheist existentialist are more closely related than either would like to admit.
It’s linen paper. Thought I’d give it a go. Yes, Marx would say much the same. Speaking as an atheist, I can respect theistic existentialism—or anything in which humans don’t defer responsibility to a transcendent idea. I respect rigor of thought. I read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and the Death of Ivan Ilyich but not War and Peace. I went through an intense Dostoyevsky phase. His Christian mysticism is entirely existential. No intellectual shortcuts there.
The Untimely Typewriter:Daily Writings Against the Tides of Distraction 
I love to think about these things, but may try to avoid tackling them directly in my story. We’ll see! I’m going to try to write a draft after Christmas.
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I think I figured out a good ending today. I was worried about that.
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Tolstoy devoted many pages in “War and Peace” to lectures about how the course of history was determined by societal forces, and the idea that “great men” could shape history was illusion. (He should have stuck to writing the story.)
The faith of the Christian and the faith of the atheist existentialist are more closely related than either would like to admit.
Hey, what’d you type this on, anyway? Wallpaper?
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It’s linen paper. Thought I’d give it a go. Yes, Marx would say much the same. Speaking as an atheist, I can respect theistic existentialism—or anything in which humans don’t defer responsibility to a transcendent idea. I respect rigor of thought. I read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and the Death of Ivan Ilyich but not War and Peace. I went through an intense Dostoyevsky phase. His Christian mysticism is entirely existential. No intellectual shortcuts there.
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