Both Uses of
chaos
in
Of Human Bondage
- He was the most inconsiderate creature in that swarming mass of mankind which for a brief space occupied the surface of the earth; and he was almighty because he had wrenched from chaos the secret of its nothingness.†
Chpt 105-106
- He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he worked seemed to make preoccupation with pigments and words very trivial.†
Chpt 115-116 *
Definition:
a state of extreme confusion and disorder