“Gloomy saints who abstained from all pleasures of sense, who lived in solitude in the desert, denying themselves meat and wine and the society of women, were, nevertheless, not obliged to abstain from all pleasures. The pleasures of the mind were considered to be superior to those of the body...”
—Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
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- Radigan Neuhalfen
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Author of *The Steppe*, the novel of a man who lives alone in the Mongolian steppe, fighting -- and eating -- mythical monsters.
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- The Difference Half a Year Makes
- The Problem of Other Minds
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- Front Cover of The Steppe
- The Steppe
- Quotations from The Steppe
- Chapter One of The Steppe
- The Steppe #5
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- Descartes in Ulaanbaatar
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- Going clubbing?
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- Jesus Christ
- Barack Obama on Political Discourse
- Australian Gunners
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