Tuesday, October 14, 2008

jonathan livingston seagull - a review

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Writing Style: It was quite an easy read. I polished it off in under an hour.

It was a simple story with a powerful meaning. I got reminded very much of Thoreau's Walden and existentialist thought. As humans, we are more than worrying about food and material possessions, but about a higher purpose. No one is better than the other. There is a passage that really struck me.
The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing , and the next is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
That is very, very cool.

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