Saul Bellow: What Americans Write Well... And What We Write Poorly

"A demonic existence is one which insistently diagnoses what it cannot cure, what it has no desire to cure, what it seeks to bring to full potency, in order that it may cause the death of its victim." Thomas Merton 

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