March 2021
Economics Department
14-28 Ultimo Rd. NSW2007
Sydney, AU
andrea.giovannetti [at] uts [dot] edu [dot] au
They could never bring him to the surface. He seemed floating languidly in a sea of dreamy visions. Colors and radiances surrounded him and bathed him and pervaded him. [...] That much he knew. He had fallen into darkness. And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.
Jack London, Martin Eden (1908)
All this active life, preceding the final act of desperation,led me from doubt to doubt, blinding me more and more to the real self which, like a continent choked with the evidences of a great and thriving civilization, had already sunk beneath the surface of the sea. This monster which rose now and then [...] would gather unto itself a pair of each kind and at last,when the floods abated, would settle down on the summit of a lofty mountain peak thence to open wide its doors and return to the world what had been preserved from the catastrophe.
Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1908 + 31 )