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Originally Posted by dead_battery
ill give it a go, i love perfume.
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Isn't it fucking fantastic? ALL Suskind's works are great. They have this way of being nihilistic yet without coming across as pessimistic or crass. Nihilism doesn't have to be negative, even the Desert Fathers were spiritual nihilists, yet pious men. In its positive manifestations, nihilism is about limiting expectations towards realism, not getting too caught up. Hope is fine, but wishful thinking is caustic. In fact, the core of the Orthodox Christian tradition is nihilism, or what the Fathers call apathia (not to be confused with apathy) which is what the Rastafari folks call, "Don't feel no way." Feelings are deceptive, thoughts are illusory. There is something altogether deeper to life than the chatter of the mind, but it can only be understood in the experiential sense.