Hey, folks, this hour on the Aircom Metaxis show, a special edition.

Socrates in the city with Mark Helprin.

This is the second part of my interview with him.

I've been criticized so often these days, they say, he uses such big words, you know, and I don't.

I mainly keep to Anglo-Saxon, an Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, but they say, the

sentences are too long, the

descriptions are too, there's too much description.

People have been trained

to

inhale

nihilism.

There's a form of nihilism.

Like the minimalist. Like the what? The minimalist. Like Greg a form of nihilism. Like the minimalists.

Like the what? The minimalist. Like Gray Carver. Yeah. They don't like

richness of language. They don't like metaphor. They don't like occult meter.

But there's a reason for that, right? In other words, when you talk about minimalist and nihilism,

they are in some ways at war with a past, right? In other words, when you think of a past

where all the type faces had seraphs and all the buildings had moldings and whatever,

they hate that because it somehow bespeaks a patriarchal Christian Western order

that inescapably points to God.

And they are trying to carve their own minimalist path out of that. So any hint

toward morality or good or evil, it's disturbing. And that's why I'm, you know, you must

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