![]() ![]() ![]() The Bridge,a quasi-anarchist organization partly composed of ex-Nazi prisoners of war. The period 1950-1956 was marked by economic deprivation, marital difficulties, and general discomfort.Ĭolin Wilson: The Oustider and Beyondby Clifford Bendau During the next few years he drifted and traveled around England and Continental Europe. It argues that all men are completely enmeshed in self-delusion, and that the universal motive that underlies all human conduct is the need of the individual to feel himself 'superior', to deny the obvious fact that he is a mere insect among billions of other insects.Ĭonsidering himself a genius, a born writer, and an outsider, Wilson found little value in formal education and left school at the age of sixteen. My first expression of my sense of revolt at the universal self-delusion was an essay on 'Superiority', written when I was twelve. When I think back on my childhood, and try to focus that impulse again, it seems to me that my life has been dominated by a desire to contract into a point. ![]() ![]() The Roveror some other of my favorite boy's papers, who lived in a barrel and fished with a line tied to his big toe while he slept. he symbol of my childhood was never the racing goggles ofĭiogenes.To establish complete independence, like a youth called Huckleberry Hodge featured in ![]()
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