Dhaka, Aug. 1 -- In his book, The Outsider, Colin Wilson recalls the author G.K. Chesterton. "Chesterton has a hero who loves London so much that he would not dream of saying 'A taxicab came round the corner like the wind,' but rather, 'The wind came around the corner like a taxicab.'" Wilson calls that the Existentialist approach. "The way of Alienation (Hegel's phrase) points outward, towards abstraction; the way of mysticism points inward, towards the concrete." In that metaphysical context, Wilson cites a poem written by the philosopher T.E. Hulme: "A touch of cold in the Autumn night/ I, walked abroad/ And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge/ Like a red-faced farmer./ I did not stop to speak, but nodded,/ And round about were the wi...
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