Daniel Quinn

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Is probably one of the best authors of our time. "Ishmael" is a must-read. It takes a big issue, saving the world, and puts it into a context that is easy to understand. I litterally could not put this one down when I read it. He's written quite a few other books as well: "The Man Who Grew Young" "The Story of B" "Providence" and "Beyond Civilization" are all awesome.

Excerpt from Ishmael:
"You hear this fifty times a day. You can turn on the radio or the television and hear it every hour. Man is conquering the deserts, man is conquering the oceans, man is conquering the atom, man is conquering the elements, man is conquering outer space."
Ishmael smiled. You didn't believe me when I said that this story is ambient in your culture. Now you see what I mean. The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was born to do."
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