Visit someone else's paradise

An antidote to nihilism

One antidote to nihilism—and I have many antidotes, I am building an apothecary of them—is to visit someone else’s paradise. For example, an artist’s house. Especially if it is the home of a dead artist, in which case you get to absorb not only the environment of the departed but—just as poignant, just as invigorating— the efforts of those who undertake…