Ishmael ... through my eyes.

I am in page 113, Part Seven.

Quinn has made this book a phylosofical story. Ishmael is not the first or only book that talk about the common questions humanity has always ask itself. Quinn touches many subjects through out the novel, and it is not considered a spiritual text, he does talk about god and the universe and human emotions, feelings and mind. But it also refers to facts to material things and their relevance in the world. Quinn talks about the world as it happens to be, material and spiritual. We can't expect the world to be only abstract neither only physical but a mix of both, to take adavantage of the material to improve the spiritual and vice versa. The question, how things came to be this way might never be answered but Quinn way to figure it out is quite interesting, I still haven't been able to catch the point he is trying to make, but I think I will see were he is going further in the reading.

Ishmael reminds me of a book I read called AMI, written by Enrique Barrios in which an elien comes to earth to teach a 10-year-old boy the fawls in our planet and society and how it should be fixed. This elien, who is called AMI comes from a more civilized planet were LOVE is the only "goverment". In this book as well as in Ishmael there someone, a teacher, trying to pass all his knowledege to someone else in order to save the world. I guess it is a different why to see the solution but it is kind of the same idea.

In the novel Ishmael talks about the gods deciding certain things. I suspect that Quinn is somehow religious, but he contradicts himself when he talks about religion as an invention for answers and not the real answer. The whole book can be seen as another invention for answers, therefore either you believe that God created the universe or science was the promoter. The big-bang theory is also mentioned by the narrator as the beginning to the story. The story meaning "a scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods." pg.41. So far Quinn is trying to summerize the universe's history in a story with a beginning a middle and an end. In the story he explains certain events and draws conclutions about humanity. "The world was made for man to conquer and rule, and under human rule it was made to become a paradise." Pg. 82. As the world shows man hasn't made it a paradise but a total disaster, this doesn't match the conclution that Ishmael gives, therefore there most be a problem that has it made impossible to make the world a paradise. This fawl is the fact that humans dont know how to live... I agree absolutly with that statement, what I don't agree with, is that there is nowhere to obtain that knoweldge. Life shouldn't be like an activity, that you most know all the rules how it ought to be performed or all the tips to win. Life should only be lived as one feels it should be lived, the way to live it is not in books nor in lectures but within ourselfs.

Overall I am pretty anxious to keep on reading Ishmael I don't doubt i will learn much more form it!!