We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, it begins by describing "Lifestyles in ►the Golden Land," referring to the author's time in California in the 1960s.
One part of this book contends that "the ethic of conscience is intrinsically insidious," claiming that Klaus Fuchs, Alfred Rosenberg, and Jesus all wrongly used moral conscience as justification. The author considers the claim that "innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself" in "On Self-Respect," and earlier says that the world of Comrade Michael Laski was a "perilous triumph of being over nothingness." The third part of this work is labeled "Seven Places of the Mind," which ends with the piece "Goodbye to All That," while another section entitled "Where the Kissing Never Stops" discusses Joan Baez. Recently republished in We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, it begins by describing "Lifestyles in ►the Golden Land," referring to the author's time in California in the 1960s. Taking its title from a line in WB Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," FTP, name this collection of essays by Joan Didion.
One part of this book contends that "the ethic of conscience is intrinsically insidious," claiming that Klaus Fuchs, Alfred Rosenberg, and Jesus all wrongly used moral conscience as justification.
{Slouching Towards Bethlehem}