A review of John Gray's Straw Dogs

A good review, and even though I haven't read the book yet (it's in the mail) the review seems to try awfully hard to have a happy ending. At some point in the future I hope to do a post on the "happy ending" or "resolution" in art and its larger philosophical function. Far from being a cop-out as some charge (as if a tragic or inconclusive ending is any less abitrary) the happy ending actually serves a much more important purpose than simply sending the audience home satisfied.

I also found another good Cioran that I couldn't resist posting: "Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery."