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Back to Methuselah
Bernard Shaw
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The evolution of Humanity played out on stage
27 March 2014
When I picked this book up again I noticed that I have already read and commented on it, and I suspect that the comment that I wrote was back when I simply commented on books that I had already read not realising that there were a number of
One of Dad's oldest friends, Ken Bennett, former professor of English at Lake Forest University, is a Shavian; I'd enjoyed the little Shaw I'd read and the description of Methuselah in a book of the world's greatest literature I'd poured through for ideas for future reading had made the five plays s
There are two ideas you cannot even suggest in a society such as ours (early 21st century U.S.) without being automatically lumped with religious zealots: first, that something is missing from Darwin's fans view of evolution: you would just get people condescendingly trying to enlighten you as to th
To be perfectly honest, I made a mistake in picking up this book. In fact, I made a mistake even adding it to my reading list in the first place. I came across a reference to it when I was looking for the attribution for a quote I was using in an essay for work (that quote is: “You see things; and y
This is one of those fascinating works that has the potential to change your life, or at the least the way you see your life. While countless science fiction novelists glibly deal with immortality as if it were just a fine way to live, Shaw explores the psychological consequences. What sort of mind
George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah" is perhaps one of his lesser known works, except to serious aficionados of the stage. But should it have wider recognition today?
The first thing you notice is that his "preface" takes up a quarter of the book. If you are one of those readers that tends
Back to Methuselah! is the rallying cry of this profound play. Shaw mentions in the preface that he never needs to reference a dictionary or thesaurus as the words just flow from his mind and it really shows in his writing. I felt as though I was laboring through the play during the middle part, how
The evolution of humanity played out on stage
23 July 2011
This play is my favourite Bernard Shaw play next to Pygmalion, and having been written in the early twenties, it not only shows some more maturity in the playwriting, but also explores a topic that was believed to be dead after World War I: t
IN THE PREFACE,SHAW'S suggestion of an INCREASED LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH attainable through CREATIVE EVOLUTION is not a viable proposition - however i liked it - KNOWLEDGE IS AN ENDLESS PURSUIT AND ONE LIFETIME IS NOT ENOUGH - FRANKLYN AND CONRAD are unanimous in this context and even after things