Chameleon Archives | Benjamin De Casseres

Posterity: The New Superstition

To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: Mr. Goldwin Smith in his letter in a recent Sun asks, “What brute shows […]

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. The artist! he garners the world in a dream, and lo! the dream is more real

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. To have the courage of one’s transgressions—that is heroic. To repent of one’s transgressions—that is merely

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. To wish for the fulfillment of your desire—that is childish. To fear the fulfillment of your

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES They who are won to silence have passed the gaudy gates of Vanity Fair—the gates that

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES All the great novelists are fatalists. Admission or denial on their part is beside the question.

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES All life is absorption—a sucking up, a blending of forces. Absorption and dissipation are the laws

The comic is Dissonance viewed from the Imperturbable. Life is a contretemps. Life is a rencounter between I Would and

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES To see, one must close the eyes. This is the paradox of insight—a seeing into. The