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10394457 No.10394457 [Reply] [Original]

Are we preservers or revolutionaries? Agents of order or emancipation?

>We writers can't entertain revolutionary illusions. We are the guardians of what there is. It is far more difficult to preserve something than to seize or destroy it...I must preserve the unwritten contracts that are the ultimate meaning of a deeper order and harmony. I am a game keeper amongst poachers. A new world? As if people were new!

>> No.10394647

>>10394457
The face of a dog.

>> No.10394650

>>10394647
fpbp

>> No.10395231

>>10394647
Fair enough, Sándor Márai wasn't a handsome man. However he still remains an influential figure in his native land.

>> No.10395499

>>10395231
I wasn't referring solely to his appearance.

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>>10394457
Authors are inherently revolutionary, but texts are inherently preservationist. This is why they'll never get along