In maniacal self-torture and despairing suicide. ![]() And at the close, of course, he is made to retreat from sanity his native Penitente-ism reasserts its authority and he ends Even his acquaintance with Shakespeare would For the sake, however, of dramatic effect, the Savage is often permitted to speak more rationally than his upbringingĪmong the practitioners of a religion that is half fertility cult and half Penitente ferocity would actually warrant. I found amusing and regarded as quite possibly true. The Savage is offered only twoĪlternatives, an insane life in Utopia, or the life of a primitive in an Indian village, a life more human in some respects, but in others hardly less queer and abnormal.Īt the time the book was written this idea, that human beings are given free will in order to choose between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other, was one that In the meantime, however, it seems worth while at least to mention the most serious defect in the story, which is this. And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something Rewrite the book-and in the process of rewriting, as an older, other person, I should probably get rid not only of some of the faults of the story, but also of such ![]() Its defects as a work of art are considerable but in order to correct them I should have to That is why this new Brave New World is the same as the old one. One's middle age in trying to mend the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth-all this is surely vain and futile. To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into the perfection it missed at its first execution, to spend ![]() The badness should be hunted out, acknowledged and, if possible, avoided Remorse,įor example is as undesirable in relation to our bad art as it is in relation to our bad behavior. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.Īrt also has its morality, and many of the rules of this morality are the same as, or at least analogous to, the rules of ordinary ethics. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ![]() If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can andĪddress yourself to the task of behaving better next time. Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is almost undesirable sentiment.
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