This speaks to me. Dark Nights pressed down in my late teens early 20's. "Ishmael", by Daniel Quinn was a lifeline for me. Did any literary works serve as a lifeline for you?
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Interesting. I found My Ishmael was the weirdest book I ever read. Glad your journey was made successfully all the same. I was lucky to be born before the cult of popular opinion became all pervasive so knowledge from many books steered me along. My parents provided a very large, mostly non-fiction, library when I was a kid. When I wasn’t running around in the bush, I was reading…
i have heard that Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" is like that but i've yet to read it
Catchy title. I like it.
Ishmael also had a big impact on me at a similar age. I gifted it to my younger sister w a lengthy note on the inside cover that she still has and I read once in a while. Another book for me at that time was the Tao of Pooh.
Thank you for sharing that. I have "The Tao of Pooh" on my bookshelf. Bought it at a used bookstore in Rice Lake, a small town to the south of me. I enjoyed it. I break it out once and awhile . . . when I want to tap into Taoism. 🙏