“Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its remaining at the level of a wish. The movies bring the boys back but stop as soon as they get them back; for home, that vaunted, all-American ideal, is a sort of death, and an oblique justification for all the wandering that kept you away from it for so long.” HomeFilmAmerican CultureMovies Book:America in the Movies or Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind Source: America in the Movies or Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind
“Robeck was a historical person who argued that loving life was ridiculous and sought to prove his point by drowning himself in 1739.” EnlightenmentSuicidePhilosopherTheologianNihilismCandideVoltaireRousseau Book:Candide Source: Candide