
Samuel Beckett's grave in Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris- May 2006
"Under modernity there can be no question about the moral authority of the self. The only question is that of how the self is to be fulfilled-by hedonism, by acquisitiveness, by faith, by the privatisation of morality or by sensationalism." -Daniel Bell (from Peter Watson's The Modern Mind)
A decent review of the book, Casanova's Women, a rather titillating read for a Monday-
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/12/02/summers/index.html