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Sunday, February 15, 2004

I'm half way finished with the 2nd part of Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire. There were a couple especially good moments. The thief/girl, who has assumed the identity of Usin, is walking through the "willage" and noticing how far from nature society is becoming. The metaphor Moore used was really poetic. She said, "we cook the blood from the earth and let it scab to crowns and daggers." I think it's great that he made a character living in the bronze age (maybe?) feel like she is living in a society that's too advanced. He did it in such a way that it was convincing, which then made you wonder if we would feel just as backwards a hundred years from now, thinking naively that we were somehow "advanced" in 2004.

There's more later where the son is talking about having no use for his father's way of life. I am wondering if evolution is going to be a continuous theme for the book. I hope the answer is yes, as I'm interested in that. It also seems vaguely congruous with Wilber's stuff.

Brian posted at 3:50 PM.
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