Research in progress, Aug 8, 2024
Andrew Dellanco, Required Reading, 1997, p. ix
Amer li ahs been dedicated to the idea that individual human beings can break free of the strictures and structures of thought into which they are born.
That by reimagining this world, they can change it.
Hitchcock: You can reimagine the world, and in a way you have to, but ultimately you cannot change it. Old structure and thoughts stll can dog you, like inheritance.
Virtue has few forms; error or sin has many firms (guilt is one of H’s recurrent themes).
The absurdity of human vanity and foolishness.
The sorrows of human frailty
The terrors of evil
For H, like other writers, they are the source of most subject matter.
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