My favorite reads of 2025, 8th book.
#TheManWithoutQualities
#RobertMusil
“If it is the fulfillment of man’s primordial dreams to be able to fly…drill our way beneath the bodies of towering mountains, send messages with godlike speed…then present-day research is not only science but sorcery…
#WomeninTranslationMonth
#WIT #WITMonth
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#SophieWilkins, translator
If it is the fulfillment of man's primordial dreams to be able to fly, travel with the fish...send messages with godlike speed…see the invisible...then present-day research is not only science but sorcery.…
Photo of first page of the final published chapter of The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil, translated by Burton Pike. The chapter is entitled, “A Great Event Is In The Making. But No One Has Noticed.”
This morning’s reading: the last (published) chapter
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Finished #TheManWithoutQualities
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Volume 1
“Money is power in the abstract…Isn't business really based…on outwitting and exploiting others, except in that in business, cunning and force have become wholly civilized…so that they are actually clothed in the guise of man's liberty?”
Close up photo of the spine of vol. 2 of Robert Musil's THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES, which is over 1000 pages
Started Vol. 2. One chapter every morning, so 38 days from now I should be done. (I'm only reading the 400 completed pages, not the 600+ pages of notes & posthumous papers.)
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#TheManWithoutQualities
#RobertMusil
This system of indirection…is what nowadays enables the individual and society as a whole to function with a clear conscience; the button to be pressed is always clean and shiny and what happens at the other end of the line is the business of others….
26 May 2025, Dublin. On my desk! FINISHED!
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#TheManWithoutQualities
#RobertMusil
“Science is possible only where situations repeat….A cube would not be a cube if it were not just as rectangular at nine o'clock as at seven….the reason God is such an embarrassment to science is that he was seen only once, at the Creation….”
#TheManWithoutQualities
#RobertMusil
...she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis...mentioned love,he responded with...the annual birthrate...Diotima talking as... God had placed man as a pearl in...the world..Ulrich...that mankind was...a pile of dots...
#TheManWithoutQualities
#RobertMusil
“…can't you see that it is precisely this growing rationality…that is to blame? Everyone's brain is seized with this craving…to rationalize and compartmentalize life…what's to become of us when we…have it all analyzed, classified, mechanized, standardized….”
#TheManWithoutQualities
#RobertMusil
When something moves him, he turns against it. He'll always see a good side to every bad action. What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context- nothing is, to him, what it is; everything is subject to change, in flux….
#TheManWithoutQualities
#RobertMusil
If it is the fulfillment of man's primordial dreams to be able to fly...drill our way beneath the bodies of towering mountains, send messages with godlike speed...then present-day research is not only science but sorcery.…
PLANS. I don't know if I'll manage it, but in 2025 it is my intention to read these twelve books, one a month.
Twelve books in one year? C'mon, that should be doable.
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