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Friday, February 6, 2009
Book Club Spot for The Incredible Lightness of Being
so i realized why this book was so beautiful and yet so depressing: it describes these amazing scenes full if imagery, painting a beautiful world, but then goes back and says that it really doesnt make that much of a difference because in the end it wont matter. This beauty in contrast to the fact that it will ultimately wither over time is horrifying! he offers absolutely no hope at all and is basically just like 'well you might as well kill yourself' (that was a paraphrase). I havent finished yet but by the way describes both the light and heavy characters (sabina who is now alone in paris, and tereza who wants to die because she cannot grasp lightness) it seems to me that there is no way out of ultimate despair. Most other philosophers would make an attempt to change this, yet he offers no suggestion to create or find meaning. i guess that seems a little silly to say, seeing as how the title is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" but i thought id point that out. looking back on our past essay with our good buddy Faulkner, it seems as he did not fulfuill his duty! reading this book does not make me want to prevail, and i dont feel like i can now endure the hardships of life! i dont want to feel like this mike! point out some beacon of hope to me in this book because i refuse to believe that the message is to simply give up!
To begin, this book is incredibly moving in its description of the world, however bleak. The book fluctuates between disparaging commentary on the struggles and terrible triumphs of man and a view of the world as something inherently heavy as only the book can express, a world which is disserviced by the transient nature of purpose that is the hallmark of man. Although subtle, this book struggles well with the existential angst (I want a cookie for that) that is inherent in living a life without the "weight" of recurring choice. I believe that its criticism is not within the world, but that mankind refuses to find solace in the things that are beyond the transitory nature that we all suffer from. Take solace not in the choice, in the movement of pain from one object of attention to the next, but to the life that exists beyond all form of choice, to the "being" that we are, each of us, endowed with.
The message of the book is not give up, it is find solace in the weight of existence, not temporal and fleeting, but beyond the influence of the seemingly important choices within our lives. Struggle not with right and wrong, yes or no, but with being.
ok mikey so it begins...
ReplyDeleteso i realized why this book was so beautiful and yet so depressing: it describes these amazing scenes full if imagery, painting a beautiful world, but then goes back and says that it really doesnt make that much of a difference because in the end it wont matter. This beauty in contrast to the fact that it will ultimately wither over time is horrifying! he offers absolutely no hope at all and is basically just like 'well you might as well kill yourself' (that was a paraphrase). I havent finished yet but by the way describes both the light and heavy characters (sabina who is now alone in paris, and tereza who wants to die because she cannot grasp lightness) it seems to me that there is no way out of ultimate despair. Most other philosophers would make an attempt to change this, yet he offers no suggestion to create or find meaning. i guess that seems a little silly to say, seeing as how the title is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" but i thought id point that out.
looking back on our past essay with our good buddy Faulkner, it seems as he did not fulfuill his duty! reading this book does not make me want to prevail, and i dont feel like i can now endure the hardships of life!
i dont want to feel like this mike! point out some beacon of hope to me in this book because i refuse to believe that the message is to simply give up!
To begin, this book is incredibly moving in its description of the world, however bleak. The book fluctuates between disparaging commentary on the struggles and terrible triumphs of man and a view of the world as something inherently heavy as only the book can express, a world which is disserviced by the transient nature of purpose that is the hallmark of man. Although subtle, this book struggles well with the existential angst (I want a cookie for that) that is inherent in living a life without the "weight" of recurring choice. I believe that its criticism is not within the world, but that mankind refuses to find solace in the things that are beyond the transitory nature that we all suffer from. Take solace not in the choice, in the movement of pain from one object of attention to the next, but to the life that exists beyond all form of choice, to the "being" that we are, each of us, endowed with.
ReplyDeleteThe message of the book is not give up, it is find solace in the weight of existence, not temporal and fleeting, but beyond the influence of the seemingly important choices within our lives. Struggle not with right and wrong, yes or no, but with being.
hey ok guys so i was just thinking....
ReplyDeleteso what is your opinion on eternal return? do you think its crap like kundera or do you beleive it? or qualify?
im gonna aventure to say that its crap like kundera. i dont think anythings happened to me twice...
thoughts?