sheena’s Reviews > Near to the Wild Heart (New Directions Paperbook) [Paperback] [2012] (Author) Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser > Status Update

It is a mistake to think we have arrived at a high degree of pragmatism and materialism. In fact pragmatism —a plan aimed at a real given end— would be compre-hension, stability, happiness, the biggest victory of adaptation that man could achieve. However doing things "so that" strikes me, faced with reality, as a degree of perfection impossible to expect of man.