The bankruptcy of a whole culture it is not enough to be defiant and set a powerful emblem up. Something more radical is required, not merely the refusal to play, but revolte. I use the french word here in place of its english cognate because the english word does not quite convey the idea. In Europe revotle implies less a kind of conduct than an intellectual position. it is a refusal, both instinctive and reasoned, of life in the conditions under which a man has to live it; it expresses a feeling that somehow humanity merits better than it gets, that the human condition is a sort of cosmic injustice. A man has no means of changing the limitations inherent in being human, but he is free to w