Editing Arno Schmidt (section)

==Writing style and personal philosophy==
Schmidt was a strict [[individualist]], almost a [[solipsist]]. Disaffected by his experience of [[Nazi Germany]], he had an extremely pessimistic world view. In 1951's ''{{ill|Schwarze Spiegel|de}}'' (''Dark Mirrors''), he describes his utopia as an empty world after an [[human impact on the environment|anthropogenic]] [[apocalypse]]. Although he was not a [[deist]] in the conventional sense, he maintained that the world was created by a monster called [[Leviathan]], whose predatory nature was passed on to humans. Still, he thought this monster could not be too powerful to be attacked, if it behoved humanity.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

His writing style is characterised by a unique and witty style of adapting colloquial language, which won him quite a few fervent admirers. Moreover, he developed an [[orthography]] by which he thought to reveal the true meaning of words and their connections amongst each other. One of the most cited examples is the use of ''“Roh=Mann=Tick"'' instead of "Romantik" (revealing romanticism as the craze of unsubtle men). The atoms of words holding the nuclei of original meaning he called Etyme (etyms).