# Questions without Answers

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Podcast: [Psyche](https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyche-5592447)
Published: 2026-06-22T22:43:24+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/quique-autrey4/episodes/Questions-without-Answers-e3l57gd
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## Resource

In this episode, I reflect on Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited , which I recently read in its dramatic form after watching the excellent and very faithful HBO adaptation with Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones. Sitting more deeply with Professor White’s despair brought me back to Eugene Thacker’s Infinite Resignation and the idea that the only philosophy worth pursuing is one that poses questions without answers. This becomes a meditation on pessimism, faith, despair, and the strange sacredness of staying in the room when no clean answer arrives.

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