A rumination on authority and its limitations, about what we think
we know - and the spaces in between. In Confessions of Narcissus,
Scully suggests that our demand for narrative coherence is one of
the things that makes our lives so difficult to bear, that when
William Hazlitt declared, "It is we who are Hamlet", he was telling
us something about Shakespeare's universality that is worth
considering: Hamlet does not just give voice to our own fears and
anxieties, he also calls them into being. In the process of trying
to find cures for ourselves, that is to say, we become creators, to
some extent, of our own misfortunes. Confessions of Narcissus
builds from the idea that stories are what we require and also
(partly) what we suffer from. In this series of observations and
aphorisms about literature and life, Scully makes the case that
uncertainty isn't an ailment that we should necessarily try to
overcome. Following in the tradition of Keats and others,
uncertainty may be something that we have good cause to be more
curious about, that uncertainty has artistic merit and is a state
of being that we might even come to enjoy.
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