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Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a short fable that is presented in the form of a novella.
Just the mere presentation of this book attracts the reader almost instantly and two hours can literally slip out of existence if you find a copy sitting on a coffee table and don’t care too much about your remaining appointments that day.
What do you get when you take a fully grown onion and begin peeling away the layers to the very core?
First, you get a whole lot of tears and then you find a beautiful pearl in the centre. This is the pearl which emerged from a small, single-room penitentiary lockdown in Florida after nearly seven years of hardcore incarceration.
Banned in the US for many years because of its profanity and liberal portrayal of teenage angst and sexuality, ‘The catcher in the rye’ was eventually chosen as one of the world’s 100 best novels by Time magazine.
The author, J.D. Salinger, retired to a remote island and lived as a recluse for the remaining decades of his life and his novel eventually became a common staple of high school and college curricula throughout the world.
Throughout history, all major advancements have come about through the discovery of individuals who gathered together the information of their time and came to a particular conclusion which had previously gone unnoticed by others in the field.
Such changes in the currents of thought are classically described by Thomas Kuhn in his classic work ‘The structure of scientific revolutions’ where he explains how the general public is often slow to come to full awareness about the most significant of historic discoveries.
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