For Bo
Lila chapter 14
"The Captain said, 'What I was thinking about this afternoon while you were
sleeping was that I want to ask you some questions that will help me fit
some things together.'
'What kind of questions?'
'I don't know yet,' he said. 'About what you like and don't like, mainly.'
'Well, sure, we can do that too.'
He said, 'I thought maybe I could ask questions about what your attitudes
are about certain things. What your values are and how you got them. Things
like that. I'd just like to ask questions and jot down answers without really
knowing where it's going to lead to and then later maybe try to put something
together.'
'Sure,' Lila said. 'What kind of questions?' He's going to go for it, she
thought.
She saw his glass was just about empty. She reached up through the hatchway
and
got it, then filled it.
'What holds a person together is his patterns of likes and dislikes,' he said.
'And what holds a society together is a pattern of likes and dislikes. And what
holds the whole world together is patterns of likes and dislikes. History is
just
abstracted from biography. And so are all the social sciences. In the past
anthropology has been centered around collective objects and I'm interested
in probing around to see if it can be better said in terms of individual values.
I've just had feelings that maybe the ultimate truth about the world isn't
history or sociology but biography,' he said.
She didn't know what he was talking about. All she could think of was Florida"
thinking of florida Bo?
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