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Updated: September 26, 2025
In "The Headsman of Berne," "warm" in the sense of "well-to-do," a disagreeable usage at best, occurs again and again, until the feeling of disagreeableness it inspires at first becomes at last positive disgust. This trick of repetition reaches the climax of meaninglessness in "The Ways of the Hour."
Night after night he walked alone in the streets thinking of the matter. He grew angry and swore. Sometimes he was so stirred by the meaninglessness of whatever way of life offered itself that he was tempted to leave the city and become a tramp, one of the hordes of adventurous dissatisfied souls who spend their lives drifting back and forth along the American railroads.
The activity of the individual soul proceeds from the highest Self as its cause. For Scripture teaches this. Gi. Gi. But this view implies the meaninglessness of all scriptural injunctions and prohibitions! To this the next Sutra replies. The 'and the rest' of the Sutra is meant to suggest the grace and punishments awarded by the Lord.
In justification of his manner of living there was first, of course, The Meaninglessness of Life. As aides and ministers, pages and squires, butlers and lackeys to this great Khan there were a thousand books glowing on his shelves, there was his apartment and all the money that was to be his when the old man up the river should choke on his last morality.
Ted was on his feet and his voice was as grave as if he were apologizing for having insulted Mrs. Severance in public, but under the meaninglessness of his actual words it was wholly firm and controlled. "I'm awfully sorry I've got to go right away. You'll think me immensely rude but it's something that's practically life-and-death." "Really?" said Mrs.
I believe what you call the meaninglessness and purposelessness the arbitrariness, one may say, of modern experiences of the kind are the surest proofs of their authenticity.
It was void, with a meaninglessness that was almost dreadful. 'Really, said Ursula, 'this room COULDN'T be sacred, could it? Gudrun looked over it with slow eyes. 'Impossible, she replied. 'When I think of their lives father's and mother's, their love, and their marriage, and all of us children, and our bringing-up would you have such a life, Prune? 'I wouldn't, Ursula.
Yet the realist may find a sort of justification for himself; at least James Thomson, B.V., thinks he has found one for him. The most thoroughly hopeless exposition of the world's meaninglessness, in English poetry, is doubtless Thomson's City of Dreadful Night. Why does the author give such a ghastly thing to the world?
The poor critic goes to his grave, picking up a smattering of cant phrases that are in the air "Zolaism," "Ibsenites," "Decadents," "Symbolism," "the new humour," "the strong-man poetry," and what not but to become acquainted at first hand with the meaning or meaninglessness of these phrases is denied him by the hard conditions of his life.
"Hi diddi hulda hi ti ti!" they carolled in merry meaninglessness. "Nay, but this is second childhood," quoth the venerable Jacob Sasportas, chief Rabbi of the English Jews, as he sat in the presidential pew, an honored visitor at Hamburg. "Surely thy flock is demented." De Castro's brow grew black. "Have a care, or my sheep may turn dog.
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