"Among the Leavers, crime, mental illness, suicide, and drug addiction are great rarities. How does Mother Culture account for this?"
"I'd say it's because...Mother Culture says it's because the Leavers are just too primitive to have these things."
In other words, crime, mental illness, suicide, and drug addiction are features of an advanced culture."
"I'd say it's because...Mother Culture says it's because the Leavers are just too primitive to have these things."
In other words, crime, mental illness, suicide, and drug addiction are features of an advanced culture."
-Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, Daniel Quinn
So I finished my latest Metro book - Ishmael. Aside from all the mindboggling thoughts and revelations and epiphanies and such that went trough my head as I was finishing it, I also had a simpler question: where is this book supposed to go on the bookshelf?
I used to work at that horrible book chain based outta Alabama and they simply put it in the fiction section. Can we Daniel Frey this book and question it as a true piece of fiction? I think Daniel Quinn should go on Oprah and have her take up the cause of getting powerful book chains to remove the book from its fiction shelves and put it somewhere more appropriate. Ideally the social science/anthropology section? at least have it in philosophy!
And this book was reccomended to me when I worked at that horrid store cos he knew I was an anthropology major. I think I looked at him like he was crazy when he told me there was a gorilla involved, but I bought it anyway, and just got around to reading it. So now I'm also thinkin... why wasn't this in my introductory anthro class in college? or better - it could've been a neat excersize in culture theory, but my professor was nowhere that creative.
what an amazing book
So I finished my latest Metro book - Ishmael. Aside from all the mindboggling thoughts and revelations and epiphanies and such that went trough my head as I was finishing it, I also had a simpler question: where is this book supposed to go on the bookshelf?
I used to work at that horrible book chain based outta Alabama and they simply put it in the fiction section. Can we Daniel Frey this book and question it as a true piece of fiction? I think Daniel Quinn should go on Oprah and have her take up the cause of getting powerful book chains to remove the book from its fiction shelves and put it somewhere more appropriate. Ideally the social science/anthropology section? at least have it in philosophy!
And this book was reccomended to me when I worked at that horrid store cos he knew I was an anthropology major. I think I looked at him like he was crazy when he told me there was a gorilla involved, but I bought it anyway, and just got around to reading it. So now I'm also thinkin... why wasn't this in my introductory anthro class in college? or better - it could've been a neat excersize in culture theory, but my professor was nowhere that creative.
what an amazing book
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You wrote: "? I think Daniel Quinn should go on Oprah and have her take up the cause of getting powerful book chains to remove the book from its fiction shelves and put it somewhere more appropriate. Ideally the social science/anthropology section? at least have it in philosophy!"
I know that Daniel Quinn was on Oprah once already. http://www.readishmael.com/readishoprah.html
Hopefully he can be a guest again!
Curt
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