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Eliade: That same year I also published an almost Joycean novel, called The Light That Failed. That same title as one of Kipling's books. Was that intentional? Eliade: Yes, because of a certain similarity between the two central characters. I've tried to reread the book several times since — impossible, I can't understand a word of it! I had been very impressed by an excerpt from Finnegans Wake , published under the title "Anna Livia Plurabelle," and I employed the stream-of-consciousness technique of Ulysses — for the first time in Romania, I believe. It was wholly unsuccessful. Even the critics didn't know what to make of it. It was totally unreadable. This influence Joyce had on you, and the taste for the word as such that it presupposes, does surprise me, rather. It seems to me that up until then you had been more inclined to treat language as simply a means to an end. Were you writing poetry at this time? In a sense yes, But I ought to ...

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For several months now I’ve had a copy of Nietzsche’s The Will to Power (unabridged edition), but I haven’t succeeded in reading it through. Along with astonishing fragments, dozens of hodgepodge sentences, dreadfully mediocre. All that he writes about (or rather against) religion, Christianity, Buddhism, is external, badly informed, feeble; it’s as though I’m reading a commonplace atheist. The theoretical level is that of a Socialist of 1880. I am amazed at Nietzsche’s capacity to resist symbol, myth, mystery. The genius sees nothing in religion other than what his contemporaries could see—men whom he, with good reason, despised. — Mircea Eliade

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