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Meadow, I don't think Golding was trying to say that primitive cultures are more evil in terms of morality. Even primitive cultures have complex rules and laws of behavior that are accepted by the population. In the example of the primitive people you've mentioned we must remember that they are...

Hi Dmitri, "Opening one's mind" in this context is meant to imply a willingness to examine all possible paths to the truth and not be limited by prejudicial assumptions. You and I may not be having this discussion today if Edward Jenner had not opened his mind to the idea of injecting a disease...

You're right Meadow. I saw an experiment involving "fairness" in which a deserving (very young) child did not receive a reward when the other children did. The others voiced a protest in defense of the child that was slighted. But I'd like to offer another example, and I'm very sorry that I...

This is sort of an all-inclusive post to address the topic in which I will attempt to posit my views in the broadest sense. It is a bit windy ... please bear with me. The current best estimate of the age of the universe is thought to be approximately 13.5 billion years old. Our solar system is...

Just a note to the owners of this site: The tools and mechanics for posting to this forum are the best I have ever experienced online. I am a veteran of many, many chat, IRC, and BBoards from the inception of the "popular" internet and I have never been involved with a social site which was...

Just to clarify in the event my post was misleading: You are absolutely right, Woz hated the movie Jobs, but was very positive about the movie The Pirates Of Silicone Valley.

I agree that it has more to say about choices. Not all of the children in the book are evil. But we have evolved over millions of years in which the tendency to what we refer to as "evil" was a requirement for survival. It's easy for us to pass judgement today on what is good and evil, but in a...

I wrote paper on this book many years ago. I'm surprised to learn how much of it I have retained. So for what it's worth here are some of my observations. Golding's book, The Lord Of The Flies (1954) was meant to serve as an expos'e of human nature in its primal state. It was also meant as a...

For reasons of conscience. The house has no defenses. It just stands there and looks at you. It doesn't even try to hide or run away when you shoot it. Hunting a house can terribly affect one's conscience in later years. Once more

Have you read Watership Down or Ender's Game? Both of them are great. The first is of the fantasy genre, and the second, science fiction.

Welcome Mandi !!!

The books I have probably reread the most times are: 1) To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) 2) Don Quixote (Cervantes) 3) The entire canon of Sherlock Holmes stories (A.C. Doyle) 4) A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) 5) Watership Down (Richard Adams)

WE HAVE A WINNER .... and the prize is a certified unsigned copy of Three Men In A Boat *LOL* Not to go on about it but Three Men In A Boat IS a very good and funny book. You can read it online, as I did. Comes complete with 19th century circa illustrations. Here is a sample : ( Montmorency is...

I am only a few pages in but your "feeling" is spot-on-accurate. Have you read it already?

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, by Winifred Watson

"Methinks I have peed whilst marching in the proverbial parade." - DATo That is not a book quote but a personal observation of my game playing abilities. *Throws himself to the floor in frustration* OK , here's another one .... To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel...

Three Men in A Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome

I agree with the above entirely. It is often hard for me to disassociate the artist from the art. Re-ditto

1. Male 2. To my knowledge the author is known particularly for the book the quote was taken from. 3. Comic farce-adventure (4) 1890s (5) Book not initially well received upon publication but has since become a classic. Since its publication, this book has never been out of print. It...

Forse siamo cugini !!!! *abbracciano*