How has the classic aphorism evolved in the age of Twitter?
“Almost all books of aphorisms, which have ever acquired a reputation, have retained it,” John Stuart Mill wrote in 1837, aphoristically—that is to say, with a neat if slightly dubious finality. We prefer collections of aphorisms over big books of philosophy, Mill thought, not just because the contents are always short and usually funny but because the aphorism is, in its algebraic abbreviation, a micro-model of empirical inquiry.
“Philosophies come and go, theologies rise and fall, but the aphorism abides,” Hui announces. His heroic aphoristic arc takes us not from the chilly La Rochefoucauld to the witty Wilde but from the elliptical Pascal to the gnomic Nietzsche, both of whom encrypted their philosophies in brief bursts of memorable obscurity. The arc ends with modernist figures such as Cioran and Calvino, who are at once oracles and comedians.
The anthropological answer is that, although we normally think of religions as sets of absolute rules, an ambivalent enigma is actually a more practical tool for spreading the faith, since it can mean many things to many people.
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