The philosophy of disappointment

Author's name: Edgar Saltus

This is not a book about despair, but about the moment of awareness that removes our masks of happiness.
Edgar Saltus walks through the corridors of human thought like a meditator in a museum of ancient souls; from the sages of Greece to the poets of modern solitude, listening to the question for which he has found no answer: Is life worth enduring?
In his reflections, he offers neither consolation nor promise, but a mirror in which we see our fragility as it is, without embellishment or denial.
He writes about disappointment as if it were another face of understanding, and about pain as if it were the only way we remember that we are alive.