![]() ![]() There was the Illuminatus Trilogy and other Robert Anton Wilson stuff. ![]() I guess it started with the works of Tom Robbins (on which I wrote my undergrad thesis), and continued through Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. There was a time in my life when several books had that effect on me. In the review quoted on the book's cover, some guy says he will divide the books he's read in his life into two categories, those he read before Ishmael and those he read after. ![]() (As I was reading it on the bus a girl next to me pointed wide-eyed and said, "I love that book!" Her friend nodded and murmured, "it changes your life.") There is a longstanding web community centered around it. Many environmentalists consider it a formative work. For those of you not familiar, Ishmael is an influential novel recounting a series of conversations between a man and, well, a telepathic gorilla. Recently, on the prompting of our own recently wed Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter, I read Daniel Quinn's Ishmael. ![]()
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