[PUGACHEV]

I dunno, Ulysses is one of my favorite novels. I first read it in my twenties, and it changed my life in so many subtle ways, all for the good. Not a day goes by when I don't recall some odd line from it: "Have you got cold feet about the Cosmos" "It's as uncertain as a baby's bottom", "He's a caution to a rattlesnake", and of course "The ineluctable modality of the visible". Nor since reading Ulysses have I ever looked up at the night sky or seen the lightening of the horizon before sunrise without remembering "Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.”

[Lagmeister]

Consider too, from merely observing the world, our ancestors gifted us with great art and technology, from which we now reinforce ignorance and stupidity.

We've become the "terror of trifles" - Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I haven’t read it but your description makes me want to give it a try.