Gustave Doré’s version of Satan after the Fall may be thinking: ‘Am I happy here?’ Those of us who refuse the blandishments of comforting religions still appreciate the call of bliss, so called, of perfect and unqualified satisfaction and that superfluous emotion we call joy. We all now live in a world into which we … More The dilemma of the Fallen or the Thrown: the idiocy of happiness or free self-possession and self- regulation in a world of horror and gloom.