Walter M. Miller Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz (Kulture Non Fiction)

Nothing like post apocalyptic Monks to cheer one up. An argument could be made that monks took us out of the middle ages, or at least helped something of ourselves survive the period. But perhaps, it has just prolonged our suffering? These are metaphysical questions, best left to priests and jesuetical dreamers and profits (sic). The real question from this book is, if tehre are future monks looking back at us, then what did our monks from the past do when they looked upon the previous past? Perhaps everything they saved is merely fiction, and the truth of pre-monk-times is obscured behind their distortions. Gotta go think about this...

- monkman [Jul 8 2006 12:21 PM]