Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Grandchildren Moon<\/p>\n
Fulcrum books.\u00a0 An idea I’ve been playing with for the last couple of weeks or so.\u00a0 A fulcrum book (my definition) changed the course of your life, altered a point of view or opened a new world for you.\u00a0 I have several that fit that definition, among them:\u00a0 War and Peace, The Trial, The Glass-Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mists of Avalon.\u00a0 There are more, too, many more I imagine if I go back through my reading history with some care and I intend to do just that.<\/p>\n
A fulcrum book has found a place to set that lever that can move a world.\u00a0 In The Trial, for example, the givenness of bureaucracy began to shift for me.\u00a0 It was as if the earth had moved.\u00a0 Not only was bureaucracy inhuman whether at the high school or college, the social security office or the corporate offices of industry, it was also silly.\u00a0 Absurd.\u00a0 Poor K, trying forever to get through the doors into the house of justice as Kafka’s fable, Before the Law, suggests.\u00a0 Then, K, dying, in his own words, “Like a dog.” without a trial or mercy.\u00a0 Never again would I assume that the force of a bureaucracy was unquestioned and unquestionable.\u00a0 The Trial also pushed me, along with The Stranger, another fulcrum book for me, to search for my own meaning, make my own path.<\/p>\n
More on fulcrum books later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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