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by historians Clarence Glacken, Roderick Nash, and Jared Diamond. Nikos
Kazantzakis performed, in every mounting addition to his prolific poetic and philosophical investigations, an autopsy of contradictions that both defined the human
spirit, while recognizing humanity’s mayhem upon itself. His characters of Odysseus
and Zorba not only were instinct with dualisms that account for their greatness as
literary individuals but also incite the imaginative havoc of the worlds with which
they necessarily grappled all around, and in them (Fig. 6.2).
Fig. 6.2 “St. Jerome and his Lion,” from Photographs Of Engravings, Etc., Of Albert Durer From
The Pinnacothek At Munich, 1879. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
6 The Ecclesiastes Factor
by historians Clarence Glacken, Roderick Nash, and Jared Diamond. Nikos
Kazantzakis performed, in every mounting addition to his prolific poetic and philosophical investigations, an autopsy of contradictions that both defined the human
spirit, while recognizing humanity’s mayhem upon itself. His characters of Odysseus
and Zorba not only were instinct with dualisms that account for their greatness as
literary individuals but also incite the imaginative havoc of the worlds with which
they necessarily grappled all around, and in them (Fig. 6.2).
Fig. 6.2 “St. Jerome and his Lion,” from Photographs Of Engravings, Etc., Of Albert Durer From
The Pinnacothek At Munich, 1879. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
6 The Ecclesiastes Factor