Monday 3 December 2012
Velleity/// splendid weaknesses
Velleity has been defined primarily as "the lowest degree of desire or volition, with no effort to act". Thomas Pynchon, in Gravity's Rainbow,
described "[t]his connoisseuse of 'splendid weaknesses', run not by any
lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope".
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