Joe, I'm only halfway through but your account below is pretty accurate...Bill!
--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Bill!, Merle, et al., > > Well, I went to the used-book store near me again today, and still they do > not have a copy of ISLAND by Huxley; I've been looking for about a month. > > It might be fun to re-read it after these intervening 38 years or so. > > I remember that the first few chapters were OK, when it was almost an > adventure story, and I recall the Little Green Book, and some of the doings > of the head honchos on the island. Was there "Moksha", or something? I read > the entire novel, but the early chapters are more memorable now. > > What I recall most clearly was the protagonist climbing cliffs, or something, > to get onto shore after his shipwreck. And, OK, that green book with the > sayings of a master. And some honchos. And Moksha. > > What I enjoyed most was just encountering in a new context some of the themes > and words I'd encountered in my first academic study of Hinduism, and seeing > how they were played out by a modern author of fiction who had sympathy with > Hinduism and with religious practice, and mysticism in general, and with > drugs (this is where I think the Moksha came in, and of course Moksha was/is > also a mythical or real substance in India; some say it is Hemp). > > I'll keep looking for an old beat-up copy. My original was lost to water > damage when a radiator on a floor above leaked, and water drowned my > bookshelf below in a cheap place I lived during college. I lost a lot of > better books, then, too. > > --Joe > > > "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote: > > > > Merle, > > > > I finished Chapter 7 a couple days ago. That's about halfway. > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
