The Leap

Hopkins's one published novel is a philosophical thriller, The Divine and the Decay (London, MacGibbon and Kee, 1957), also published as The Leap! In this story, the fate of Britain hangs in the balance. Political parties are jockeying for power. A recently formed political party, the New Britain Party, is led by a visionary firebrand, Peter Plowart, who has planned the assassination of his arch-rival, the leader of his own political party. As Plowart anticipates the assassination, he realises t...

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Duke_Nukem12 февраля 2021 г.
With increasing passion, he said: ‘I shall murder five hundred men with my bare hands, with rusty hatchets, with garrotting wires, with guns, knives and poisons and stain my soul so red it’s past all your religious redemptions—if it will make our species great! And when Lachanell is dead, I shall deal with Purchamp. He shan’t bait me like a low criminal!
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Duke_Nukem12 февраля 2021 г.
and that the road to freedom is as narrow as the eye of a needle. The fact remains that the instinct of Stirner and Nietzsche is right, no matter how wrong they may be on certain particulars, while the instinct of altruistic do-gooders like Bertrand Russell is somehow fundamentally wrong, being based upon a simplistic and rather silly view of reality.
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