The Life To Come

[darksteele]

I've been reading E.M. Forster for my British Literature II course and I think I've found a writer that I need to dive into headfirst.

No puns intended.

He wrote "A Passage to India" and other novels during the early-mid 1900s.  He was also a short story writer and it was one of his short stories, "A Life to Come", that really got me interested in

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Suggested Reading, not exactly on the same lines...

[jessikanesis]

You probably know E.O. Wilson. If not, he pretty much created the field of sociobiology, and he wrote The Little Things That Rule The World, or some similar title. It was about ants and worms and micro-organisms without which the world would be unlivable. Anyway, in my Environmental Ethics class, my professor suggested we pick up a copy of Wilson's latest book, The Creation, and I swear I almost cried reading an excerpt from the end.

The whole book is written as a series of letters from the author to a fake pastor (or priest? not positive), but it's really a book written for the entire collective uber-religious community of the United States, pleading with them that it is their duty as children of God to ensure the survival of His Creation. Just the whole blend of religious scholarly writing with an environmentalist theme was kind of magical in itself, but it somehow leaves you feeling hopeful (or more hopeful than An Inconvenient Truth, anyway).

Anyway, I'm going to see today if the USF library carries it, and start it today.