Erin, Sam and all:
Yea, what Sam said. Culture-bearing books are like the brujo. They are the
final straws, the ones that break the camel's back. They're the ones that
come along at the right time, almost accidentially. They help to loosen
static patterns and precipitate a Dynamic change. As Pirsig says, like Uncle
Tom's Cabin, it doesn't even have to be a very good book.
Its hard to come up with examples of other culture-bearing books because
they're so rare. A bookk might just be very popular, extremely good or very
important and that can confuse things too. But I'll go out on a limb anyway.
How about Harry Potter? Just kidding.
How about Darwin's Origin of Species? There were philosophers that wrote
about evolution prior to Darwin, but for some reason it didn't really catch
on. Or how about Jung's Man and His Symbols? Many of the ideas Jung
expressed actually existed long before he was born, but for some reason they
didn't catch on.
Maybe that's what Wim is trying to say? The meaning is in the relationship
between books and readers because its all about timing. The readers have to
be ready to recieve it. They say an individual person can only read the
books that they deserve and I guess that goes for cultures too. It the same
idea on a collective scale. Perhaps the trick is to be ahead of your time,
but only by a few minutes.
DMB
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