EJ wants to read Ulysses

Matt Wong is 44% done with Fahrenheit 451

"“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.�

From beginning to end, this book made me feel . It made me feel everything my brain is wired to feel. Passionate love, all-consuming fear, burning anger, childhood wonder, deep and existential dread, and maybe just a glimmer of hope. The arrogance of humankind to march around like we, and we alone, own this world that we have inhabited for no more than a fraction of a second in the cosmic day is astounding. And it will be our downfall. We take and we take and we take without sparing one second to listen to the wisdom of those that were here long before us and will still be here long after. There is so much we can learn from forests, so much yet to be discovered, and so little time left to discover it before we burn it all to the ground. The natural world has been experimenting, learning, growing, advancing, connecting on a timeframe our brains can’t even comprehend. And we think we know best? We’re just the understory. We’re nothing without the arboreal gods that give us life, and we can either learn to listen to the wisdom they’ve been trying to impart on us from the start, or we can have that wisdom forced upon us when it’s too late to listen. I still have hope for the former. What a beautifully moving story.
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