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I am religious by nature, i'm not a nihilist. i don't follow, i don't even know what the tenets of things like deconstructionism are, and all those schools that come up and their way of looking at things that people strive to incorporate into what they write. i don't even know what they are. because i sense from a distance that i don't want to know. and therefore even if i had no politics, actual politics, my cultural point of view is hopelessly out of date with the modern literary sensibility. which is nihilistic, and ironic, detached, cool, and cowardly.
-Mark Helprin
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I Am Religious By Nature, I'm Not

Mark Helprin
I am religious by nature, i'm not a nihilist. i don't follow, i don't even know what the tenets of things like deconstructionism are, and all those schools that come up and their way of looking at things that people strive to incorporate into what they write. i don't even know what they are. because i sense from a distance that i don't want to know. and therefore even if i had no politics, actual politics, my cultural point of view is hopelessly out of date with the modern literary sensibility. which is nihilistic, and ironic, detached, cool, and cowardly.
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