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Book SynopsisThrough a series of 144 short texts on twelve key subjects, this text introduces the reader to some of the central perplexities of human life.
Trade Review...a colourful platter of savoury hors d'oeuvres. The author's own writings are combined with carefully selected texts...and they invite the reader to explore the human enigma. -- Nikky Singh, Colby College
This is, as one would expect from Jay Williams, a book as profound as it is unusual. It does not merely tell the reader about the metaphorical nature of religious language; it forces him or her to experience it, to be caught in verbal mazes from whichthere is no way out save by recognizing that, like carriages turning into pumpkins and horses into mice, words can turn into other things: wordless experiences, black holes and escape hatches. Read it (if you dare) and you won't think about words or religion in quite the same way again. -- Robert Ellwood, University of Southern California
This is, as one would expect from Jay Williams, a book as profound as it is unusual. It does not merely tell the reader about the metaphorical nature of religious language; it forces him or her to experience it, to be caught in verbal mazes from which there is no way out save by recognizing that, like carriages turning into pumpkins and horses into mice, words can turn into other things: wordless experiences, black holes and escape hatches. Read it (if you dare) and you won't think about words or religion in quite the same way again. -- Robert Ellwood, University of Southern California
...a colourful platter of savoury hors d'oeuvres. The author's own writings are combined with carefully selected texts...and they invite the reader to explore the human enigma. -- Nikky Singh, Colby College
Table of ContentsThe Sphinx; words; good and evil; time; the self; pleasure and pain; that none greater than which can be conceived; knowing and not knowing; prescription; transformation; the good life; and life after death.
