Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's... high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part, Nay, I have done: you get no more of me,... And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain; Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was at that moment, just after Krug had fallen through the bottom of a confused dream and sat up on the straw with a gasp--and ...just before his reality, his remembered hideous misfortune could pounce upon him--it was then that I felt a pang of pity for Adam and slid towards him along an inclined beam of pale light--causing instantaneous madness, but at least saving him from the senseless agony of his logical fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »