My Vote Is Better Never to Have Been
Vote for the oddest book title of the year (lower right).
posted by Degolar @ 11:57 PM
3.12.2007
Degolar
A Youth Services Librarian who blogs pseudonymously; A D&D character, a bard, equivalent of librarian in the oral tradition; An idealistically liberal Christian with socialist leanings; An overweight sometimes triathlete; Husband and parent; Hints of Loki, Falstaff, and Pan.
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""In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?"
Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last.
"Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.""— Joanne Harris
5 Comments:
That doesn't sound odd at all. In fact, it sounds like a high minded treatise to me, possibly even a legal treatise on "wrongful life" actions. Yes, they really do exist.
And you saw the subtitle? The Harm of Coming Into Existence. That's the odd part to me. And probably because it does make a bit of sense; everyone does unwitting harm no matter their intentions. But the idea of holding people accountable for something they had no control over or no say in . . . because they didn't even exist at the time the action (of their creation) was taken . . . it's logical on one level and completely illogical on another. It's the jarring reconciliation of those two levels that won me over.
I voted Green Nazi.
Well, I went to the Oxford University Press site, and the harm being done is to the person coming into existence. It's not a harm being done by the person coming into existence. Basically, this is the high minded, academic version of the perennial adolescent complaint "I never asked to be born!"
I followed the trend and went with the shopping cart identification guide.
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