(June 12, 2015 at 11:04 am)robvalue Wrote: Strangely enough, I can't think of any books that have had a profound impact on me. There may well have been some, but if so I can't remember them. So I'd have to say everything by Douglas Adams instead. It all got me through a lot of years.
Ooh...I forgot about Hitchhiker's. I'd have to say it definitely influenced my beliefs about the absurdity of life and the human race.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell