Literature · Reflection
OCTAVIO PAZ ~ IS MODERN THINKING WIDE AWAKE?
14 August 2011
“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”
Octavio Paz
The labyrinth of Solitude
Mexican writer 1914-1998
Nobel Prize for literature in 1990
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