sarahkomas's review
1.0
Not recommended. Another reviewer aptly said "I don't care about the egocentric Miles or the essentially narcissistic Pamela so their ultimate predicament didn't move me the way I felt it should." I didn't understand at all the satire, which is perhaps an indictment on me but as a reasonably intelligent and well-read human being I'm not fussed by such pretension.
There was one idea that I did like, however, namely:
"That's the definition of culture - knowing and thinking about things that have absolutely nothing to do with us. About Etruscans, for example; or the mountains on the moon; or cats'-cradle among the Chinese; or the universe at large [...] But make the acquaintaince of a few practical businessmen - the kind who have no time to be anything but alternately efficient and tired. [...] Get to know those people; [i]they'll[/i] make you see the point of culture. Just as the Sahara'll make you see the point of water."
There was one idea that I did like, however, namely:
"That's the definition of culture - knowing and thinking about things that have absolutely nothing to do with us. About Etruscans, for example; or the mountains on the moon; or cats'-cradle among the Chinese; or the universe at large [...] But make the acquaintaince of a few practical businessmen - the kind who have no time to be anything but alternately efficient and tired. [...] Get to know those people; [i]they'll[/i] make you see the point of culture. Just as the Sahara'll make you see the point of water."
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