Meek
i just finished reading the people's act of love by james meek.
not to spoil it for the rest of you, but i think this book should be re-titled: "man's act of love" because the protagonist uses some bs excuse about trekking through 6 months of tundra/taiga and becoming a cannibal when later on you find out it was for the love of a woman.
however, the question this book asks is an interesting one: under what circumstances is it justified to eat another human being?
the other great point this book asserts is that man's great evils originates from the "fruit and the serpent" ... whether it be in the form of wars, murder, greed. the solution to this as balashov argues is oh-so simple: castration (get it? the "fruit" and the "serpent"). if all men were castrated, men would be freed from the sins of the world ... (supposedly in siberia after the turn of WWII, there were documented colonies/cults of russian castrates that claimed to be angels instead of men ... women would slice off their breasts).
lovely.
not quite your russian classic .... but your modern version of it at the least.
now who's up for pie?
not to spoil it for the rest of you, but i think this book should be re-titled: "man's act of love" because the protagonist uses some bs excuse about trekking through 6 months of tundra/taiga and becoming a cannibal when later on you find out it was for the love of a woman.
however, the question this book asks is an interesting one: under what circumstances is it justified to eat another human being?
the other great point this book asserts is that man's great evils originates from the "fruit and the serpent" ... whether it be in the form of wars, murder, greed. the solution to this as balashov argues is oh-so simple: castration (get it? the "fruit" and the "serpent"). if all men were castrated, men would be freed from the sins of the world ... (supposedly in siberia after the turn of WWII, there were documented colonies/cults of russian castrates that claimed to be angels instead of men ... women would slice off their breasts).
lovely.
not quite your russian classic .... but your modern version of it at the least.
now who's up for pie?
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