Saturday, May 07, 2005
introduction + past projection
It is only fitting that Daniel Quinn's book be named after the narrator of Mellville's Moby Dick: a book about self discovery through travel on the glass of the world. In Ishmael an adult student learns the meaning of human existence and how he can save the world; oh yeah, he learns this from a telepathic conversation with a Gorilla (Ishmael).
Interesting passages:
page 83
"'Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. and so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.'
'That's right.'"
page 84
"'There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world...'"
Interesting passages:
page 83
"'Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. and so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.'
'That's right.'"
page 84
"'There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world...'"
# posted by Bradley P. Guillory @ 11:28 AM 
