More specifically books that lift small fascinating or beautiful details and or occurances in a life that can generally be classified as mundane or boring. Something that may help me see these small fascinating features of my own life that I may be blind to. Thanks!
(Hopefully that makes sense..)
by Mel_FlpWgn
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Your comment reminded me of a quote from Richard Dawkins. This is from the book *Unweaving the Rainbow*…
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
Idk if plays count, but Our Town is great for this. Otherwise, maybe Under the Whispering Door