The defining characteristic of the modern era is perfectibility, the belief that everything can be infinitely improved.
John Lanchester – The Debt to Pleasure
Era of Perfectibility
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John Lanchester is a British author who wrote "The Debt to Pleasure." The novel is a darkly humorous first-person narrative of a highly cultured and sophisticated man who also happens to be a psychopath and a murderer. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Book Award in 1996.