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A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
by Julian Barnes
You aren’t too good with the truth, either, your species. You keep forgetting things, or you pretend to...ignoring the bad things makes you end up believing that bad things never happen. You are always surprised by them. It surprises you that guns kill, that money corrupts, that snow falls in winter. Such naïvety can be charming; alas, it can also be perilous.”
This book was a very mixed bag for me: some chapters were fantastic: interesting and with good insight. Some rather dragged on and I found myself bored by them. I wanted more of some stories and would have quite happily cut out others. But it was n interesting look at human behaviour and the myths we create for ourselves as a species.
’ Why do we have Heaven? Why do we have these dreams of Heaven? ...
‘Perhaps because you need them,’ she suggested. ‘Because you can’t get by without the dream.’
This book was a very mixed bag for me: some chapters were fantastic: interesting and with good insight. Some rather dragged on and I found myself bored by them. I wanted more of some stories and would have quite happily cut out others. But it was n interesting look at human behaviour and the myths we create for ourselves as a species.
’ Why do we have Heaven? Why do we have these dreams of Heaven? ...
‘Perhaps because you need them,’ she suggested. ‘Because you can’t get by without the dream.’