Where The Blue Begins
By Christopher Morley copyright 1922
To be honest I'm not sure how this arrived on my reading list. Morely is a fiction writer, an essayist, and poetry writer of some acclaim but no great notoriety. I thought Brigham recommended it, but I was mistaken, he didn't. Nonetheless I got an inter-library loan of the book and quickly devoured it.
Reviews even say it may have been written as a child book or other types but I found this book to be a good philosophical read: compelling observation on society, family life, professional life and the self discovery of what one truly is searching out of life.
I started reading and gathering quotes but decided not to do that this time but just to read it and enjoy it. And that I did! Not everybody can write a book with the characters all being dogs. And for that matter I don't know if it adds value to the story to be dogs or people, a unique device. Glad I read it. And recommended to you if you like philosophy books with a slant on social commentary. And it seems relevant to me today in 2016 as it was in 1922 when he wrote it.
One quote I'll throw out there is how he describes discovering who his real self was "Another one of those numerous self-inflicted committed suicide that was the right idea to keep sloughing them off throwing overboard the unreal and factitious paring them down until he discovered the genuine and in alienable creature" . reminds me a bit of CS Lewis's description of Eustice as a dragon peeling off his Dragon self and trying to find his real self inside. The challenge for all of us – discovering our true inner self and raison d'etre..
By Christopher Morley copyright 1922
To be honest I'm not sure how this arrived on my reading list. Morely is a fiction writer, an essayist, and poetry writer of some acclaim but no great notoriety. I thought Brigham recommended it, but I was mistaken, he didn't. Nonetheless I got an inter-library loan of the book and quickly devoured it.
Reviews even say it may have been written as a child book or other types but I found this book to be a good philosophical read: compelling observation on society, family life, professional life and the self discovery of what one truly is searching out of life.
I started reading and gathering quotes but decided not to do that this time but just to read it and enjoy it. And that I did! Not everybody can write a book with the characters all being dogs. And for that matter I don't know if it adds value to the story to be dogs or people, a unique device. Glad I read it. And recommended to you if you like philosophy books with a slant on social commentary. And it seems relevant to me today in 2016 as it was in 1922 when he wrote it.
One quote I'll throw out there is how he describes discovering who his real self was "Another one of those numerous self-inflicted committed suicide that was the right idea to keep sloughing them off throwing overboard the unreal and factitious paring them down until he discovered the genuine and in alienable creature" . reminds me a bit of CS Lewis's description of Eustice as a dragon peeling off his Dragon self and trying to find his real self inside. The challenge for all of us – discovering our true inner self and raison d'etre..
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