He sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against Nature . . . the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to mix with change. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.
American writer and screenwriter (1903–1940)
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939). He died in a car crash in 1940, aged 37.
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Birth Name:
Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein
Alternative Names:
Nathaniel West
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Nathanial West
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Nathan Weinstein
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Nathan von Wallenstein Weinstein
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