I've just finished the book and my head is swimming with so many ideas. For the first time I have no desire to write a book report. I do not want to fill this blog with quirky quips from my recent reading, nor do I want to illustrate the content for those who are not in the know. This was too profound. This experience was too overwhelming. Every ideal I've held sacred and spent most of my life attempting to convey was presented to me on the page in an elegance and clarity that defies description. Last night I wept for a gorilla and today I am still mourning his passing as if he was my best friend. I have never been so desperate for someone to talk to, to share the passion of my heat and mind with. I want....NEED to speak to someone about the contents of this book and I don't want to have to explain it or argue it with those who have not read it. I do not feel even remotely worthy to paraphrase Daniel Quinn, which is saying something. I was aware of the message that must be delivered in order to prevent the inevitable downfall of man, but I now have access to the formula for teaching others without provoking their fear or their ire, a tool whose absence has been the cause of my failure as a teacher.
I am aware of 4 people in my inventory of friends who might have something to say about this blog and I pray they will say something...anything...in response to my plea. I feel like an amoeba climbing out of the slime lining the first beaches when life was new on this world. I knew the ocean backward and forward and now I've tasted my first mouthful of sand and I'm nothing shy of bewildered.
I feel a great swelling of peace, sadness, hope and despair in a gaseous mass surrounding my heart with the density of a diamond. The path behind me has been removed and the one before me ascends straight into the heavens.
Even now....I weep for Ishmael.
WITH GORILLA GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR MAN?
Ravyn Gwyn Yr Alcemydd · Tue Feb 02, 2010 @ 07:35pm · 0 Comments |