Literary & historical extracts
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Image: Human skull at Verdun (1918)
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Hegel, The Spirit of Christianity. Pg. 232:
The pricks of conscience have become blunt, since the deed’s evil spirit has been chased away; there is no longer anything hostile in the man, and the deed remains at most as a soulless carcass lying in the charnel-house of actualities, in memories.
Karl Marx, “English-French Mediation in Italy.” Pg. 480:
The death’s head of diplomacy grins after every revolution and particularly after the reactions which follow every revolution. Diplomacy hides itself in its perfumed charnel-house as often as the thunder of a new revolution rumbles.
Georg Lukács, Theory of the Novel. Pg. 64:
[S]econd nature is not dumb, sensuous and yet senseless like the first: it is a complex of senses — meanings — which has become rigid and strange, and which no longer awaken interiority; it is a charnel-house of long-dead interiorities. Continue reading