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WOOD THRUSH BOOKS -- PHILOSOPHY |
WTB catalog blurb:
Beginning with the limits of human understanding and extending beyond the grasp of more comfortable worldviews, the author outlines a metaphysic that respects deep-forest realities while wrestling with the possibility of natural order in an apparently random universe. Myriad sources are tapped here -- Albert Camus, Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, R. W. Emerson, Gary Snyder, Paul Tillich and others -- in a work designed to provoke philosophical speculation.Excerpts from the chapbook:
No one will ever have enough information to root one´s life completely in facts. Always there remains at least one essential fact undiscovered. Hence, every life is a leap of faith.About the authorWho can reconcile the sky-splitting cry of an eagle with the essential purpose of its talons?
Mist, mystery, mystical - the mind runs wild given half a chance.
Dreaming of eternal life, the collective will of humankind rails against the harsh reality of finitude.
Are we paying close attention to the story written in dust and bone? No, we´ve got it in our heads that we´re something else -- the be-all and end-all of existence.
God or no, is it possible that the story of the universe isn´t all about us?
Walt McLaughlin is a poet, storyteller, small press publisher and renegade philosopher who lives and works in northern Vermont.
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