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The Passion of Will Self(newstatesman.com)
13 points by apollinaire 4 days ago | 3 comments
samirillian a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

Such an irony/nominative determinism around his name. The self cannot will its way out of the tangled mess, cannot will to be the good Christian he dissociatively admires.

“it is not in the individual gift to will belief. Self has tried to believe – and cannot.”

mitchbob 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://archive.ph/2026.03.07-033009/https://www.newstatesma...

rwmj 22 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

He seems to be as miserable and misanthropic in real life as he is in his books.