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Page 47
... existence , we have the heresy of Gnosticism , which posits " a God unknowable by nature . . . and utterly incommensurable with the created order . " 18 Vonnegut aims in the other direction . He grants the finite a real existence ...
... existence , we have the heresy of Gnosticism , which posits " a God unknowable by nature . . . and utterly incommensurable with the created order . " 18 Vonnegut aims in the other direction . He grants the finite a real existence ...
Page 88
... existence , as the six - year - old child learns the expectable lessons of life , such as the hatching of baby chicks and the taming of a pet squirrel , and the in- evitable horrors of death . Almost at once the latter predominate : his ...
... existence , as the six - year - old child learns the expectable lessons of life , such as the hatching of baby chicks and the taming of a pet squirrel , and the in- evitable horrors of death . Almost at once the latter predominate : his ...
Page 154
... existence is that it has , in itself , the fact of reality and the pressure . . . . The old assumptions of beginning and end - those very neat assertions — have fallen away completely in a place where the only actuality is life , the ...
... existence is that it has , in itself , the fact of reality and the pressure . . . . The old assumptions of beginning and end - those very neat assertions — have fallen away completely in a place where the only actuality is life , the ...
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