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Account dedicated to t/work of writer&modern-day “prophet of purpose” #ColinWilson & his attempt to outline a New Existentialism.☯️@PlaidPrydain🎥@HoratioDeWitt

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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

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For Nature crescent does not grow alone in thews and bulk. But as this temple waxes, the inward service of the mind and soul grows wide withal.

Laertes in Hamlet expressing the idea that Evolution/Growth is not just a physical phenomenon, but an internal one.

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@wayotworld @GregPhilosopher The moronic irony is Diversity is the death of diversity.

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Man’s business is to try to weigh up the world; and the world is not just the universe around him, it is the universe behind his eyes.
#ColinWilson

#TheCartesianFallacy

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1897
#SherlockHolmes has returned from Cornwall a new man,yet he can’t be persuaded to investigate t/brutal murder of a suffragette - he wants to write an Opera instead!
Besides, he says,he has a more important crime to solve: The Case of t/Poisoned Milieu
https://t.co/EHozcDaxri

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“ The problem of democracy is not the problem of getting rid of kings. It is the problem of clothing the whole people with the elements of kingship. To make kings and queens out of a hundred million people, that is problem of democracy.”
F C Morehouse

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And let’s not forget “Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head” aka “The Black Fingernail”

A light cartoon followed by a serious movie - my evening’s entertainment sorted!

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[Gary Lachman @GaryLachman]

@ProphetLaureate @gomerykimber Then of course there's The Scarlet Pumpernickel...https://t.co/vVU4tFr0N4

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@gomerykimber @GaryLachman “Baroness Orczy’s use of an effeminate disguise for her hero indicates an understanding that masculinity itself is a masquerade.”

The 1st attempt at t/story was called “The Red Carnation”

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The 2nd was called “The Sign of the Shamrock”☘️

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#ColinWilson #Quiz Q2

CW did not appear 2b a fan of #IanFleming & his #JamesBond novels, describing them as “a charade, full of deliberate absurdities”& he was even more scathing elsewhere.

But what was t/name of t/Operation Bond was sent on under cover in OHMSS to get Blofeld?

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@gomerykimber @GaryLachman A follow on Question: t/trials of a writer.
‘T/Scarlet Pimpernel’ was Baroness Orczy’s 3rd attempt at getting t/story right - t/ character was originally a Polish anarchist trying to overthrow t/Russian Tsar!
Which one of t/following 3 names was not one she originally chose?

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Or as #ColinWilson put it very succinctly on another occasion:
‘To give a man only his personal ends to serve is to condemn him to triviality’ - or ‘the triviality of everydayness.’ (#Heidegger)

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Heroism depends upon the sense of purpose, and the highest type of purpose is the least personal, the most idealistic. /1
#ColinWilson

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But how can there be any room for this type of purpose in a world that is becoming increasingly geared to ‘social thinking’, a world whose fundamental belief is that ’Man’s first duty is to society’? /2
#ColinWilson

(ie VoxPopuli does not necessarily represent VoxDei)
@elonmusk

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@gomerykimber @GaryLachman And btw can any one tell me why a scholarly Book on t/ subject should cost so much?

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“Logically this conclusion is difficult to avoid. Yet my own temperament has a vein of optimism that is not crushed by these reflections although I am hard put to it to say why. Perhaps I have simply failed to grasp my own conclusions.”
2/ #ColinWilson

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“My conclusions are pessimistic as far as Western civilisation is concerned. And since the world is now a smaller place where all civilisations are interwoven it is difficult not to feel that this pessimism implicates the whole human race.”
1/ #ColinWilson 1957

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@gomerykimber @GaryLachman “How many are there in your brave league, Monsieur?”
“Twenty all told, Mademoiselle. One to command, and nineteen to obey.”

It’s just an interesting coincidence & curious piece of intuition on her part.

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@gomerykimber @GaryLachman The Chinese discovered it in POW Camps during the Korean War trying to stop American prisoners organising escape attempts.

#TheOutsider - a small matter of Percentages

Answer: #FrankensteinsCastle p99

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Yes Kids, it’s t/return of yr Favourite Phenomenalogical Existentialist QuizShow!

Q3
What did Sir Percy Blakeney, (Baronet),discover 100yrs before Sir Henry M Stanley, 160yrs before t/Chinese, & 170yrs before Robert Ardrey?

One for t/experts,methinks
@gomerykimber @GaryLachman

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“The growth of ‘realism’ has been the great feature of the intellectual history of our own age. Why this should be so is a complicated question.”
George Orwell

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Millenniyule 2022: Jeffrey M Bale & Tamir Bar-On https://t.co/R0Vqyk6yEo

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We should not discount t/possibility that if t/intellectuals shirk the problem, opportunistic politicians may seek cruder solutions. /3
#ColinWilson

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The problem is how intelligent human beings can escape t/enstiflement of bourgeois society & t/sleep of triviality it brings. It is a disturbing thought that t/totalitarianism of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin…/1
#ColinWilson

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…is also an attempt to solve it by introducing universal discipline, the secular equivalent of the church of the Middle Ages. /2