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Life & Times of Michael K
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Is life a journey? And how to survive when the entire world seems to turn against you?
Even a tiny miserable ant needs home… To escape the storm one must get smaller and smaller…
To become free of the world one must be ready to diminish one's consciousness until it turns into an infinitesimal dot.
His first step was to hollow out the sides of the crevice till it was wider at the bottom than the top, and to flatten the gravel bed. The narrower end he blocked with a heap of stones. Then he laid the three fence posts across the crevice, and upon them the iron sheet, with slabs of stone to hold it down. He now had a cave or burrow five feet deep.
Even a tiny miserable ant needs home… To escape the storm one must get smaller and smaller…
He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an earth too deeply asleep to notice the scratch of ant feet, the rasp of butterfly teeth, the tumbling of dust.
To become free of the world one must be ready to diminish one's consciousness until it turns into an infinitesimal dot.
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Reading Progress
April 13, 2006
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Started Reading
April 15, 2006
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Finished Reading
April 12, 2013
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A great review Vit. I believe that you have captured the essence of the book.