Ravelstein

Saul Below, 2000
Penguin, 2001 To be really handsome a man should be tall. A tragic hero has to be above the average in height. I had not read Aristotle in ages but I remembered this much from the Poetics.

p.42

"Better for them if they hate me. It'll sharpen their minds. There's too much therapeutic bullshit, altogether."

p. 44

"Nothing is more bourgeois than the fear of death."

p 231

We should be grateful for good advice in these matters since life is too short to risk a waste of time—an entire month, say, on Russell's History of Philosophy, an obviously deformed and even cranky book, very modern in that it tries to spare you the study of several German and French philosophers.

Novels
Marc Girod