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The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence. In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or Kafka. This engrossing, strikingly original book invites you to experience your life in a new way. Hating Perfection weaves its stories together with an elegant logic. Our hateful world--painful, unjust, ruthless, fatal--stands revealed as the best of all possible worlds. Flooded everywhere by a perfection…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2013Humanity Books · 373 pages · 9781616148751
Social epistemologyLifeOntologyConduct of lifeEthicsPhilosophy






