March 11, 2005

Here I am, an English teacher trying to think of fascinating subjects to get you folks started on. . .and all I can think of is literature. (No real shock there!) Voltaire's Candide spends a life in search of the best of all possible worlds. . . I wonder what that would really be, and could we agree on one version? Even more interesting--if our little tiny group could agree, could a larger group? I guess this comes back around to the idea of what is civilization, and is there a universal definition? (And, of course, for Aaron and Miroslav--could it survive first contact?)