It was sort of all right, to me it made an effort to seem very deep and then it wasn’t very deep. As I remember he ended up with the solution of life being something about ‘quality’.
How come this thread started up again? It’s like a year old already. Strange.But good.
The tools and the way the mechanics attached themselves to their purpose echoed a universal dilemma — ought one to order his life in order to live it or ought he let things fall where they may but never lose sight of the need to remember to gather them back up when the task at hand presents itself; but moreover, through the narrative’s detail on the tools of life is the reliance on their worth and the worth of their most perfect use.
At the end of course, we find that it is not the tools at all that count but what it is we do with them and does all the effort have that assumed worth.
Some things can’t be fixed and the realization of this alone allows the reader to share the writer’s disappoinment that without an essential value or a relentless attempt to achieve such that often life leaves but the tools behind.
The author’s fixation was on the search for quality, the sheer definition of the word and what it means and the conclusion was that if it were to be found, it wouldn’t be in the search but in the acceptance of its mystery and eventual mastery.
Nightmares of Command (science fiction)
Age of Tribalism (kind of an attack on leftwing PC garbage hard to explain but good)