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Book SynopsisIn his new work, Disappointment, Bruce Fleming starts from the realization that even objective views of the world are so only under specific circumstances. Subjects range from war and the nature of explanation systems such as science and astrology to a concept Fleming calls coloring. When we identify coloring, it seems to us that a single quality of something larger has eclipsed all its other qualitiesfor example, skin color or sexual orientation coming to stand for the whole much more complex individual. Once identified, coloring can be questioned and rejected. However, to eliminate coloring, we must already have identified it as such. Before we perceive coloring, we think we''ve given an objective description of the world: today''s coloring was yesterday''s objective. But this in turn suggests that today''s objective may be tomorrow''s coloring. Realizing this is what leads to the technical notion of disappointment examined in this text, a feeling that life is a process of constant r
