TMoP Chap 16, pity and a heart-to-heart

[Mark Kohut]

p. 195 "How clever of Nechaev to have forewarned him against pity! ...pity for a child alone in the sea, fighting and drowning....--D.

Anti-Christian Nietzsche thought pity a useless emotion--to be eliminated
as much as we can. 

"When was it last that words could be trusted to travel from heart-to-heart?...I am reminded of the scene in "Against the Day" back in the Balkan town with Vlado.....when TRP seems to show heart-to-heart encounters even clashes....

"An age of acting, this, an age of disguise."---as if D. was articulating, visioning TRP (or others--Baudelaire, Benjamin) who say this about 'the modern age"....