This "blog" is the temporary repository of information about the genesis of Fragments of Berossus and what, in the broadest possible terms, it is about.
You will not find explanations of the philosophy, the language, or the twists and turns of the narrative here. The book is self-contained; everything I wished to say in it it already says.
Don't ask, "What did you mean when you said X?" I shall decline to answer — even if I know the answer, which I don't always.
Don't ask, "Can you summarise the plot?" Why? Because the answer's this: no I can't. I've tried and I've failed. There is a story, but the book is more than the story — even if I could summarise major plot elements it wouldn't help. The book is about the question — that's all there is to it.
A good place to start is the FAQ
Beginnings...
The Greeks had a word for it: eudaimonia — the good life. Not good in the sense of indulgent, luxurious, happy or pleasurable but rather, in conjunction with arete, in the senses of desirably virtuous, of fulfilment and satisfaction. They were not alone. On every continent the rightness of living has been an abiding issue for all humanity throughout recorded history. Many, with varying degrees of success and acceptance, have spoken or written about how life should be lived. Many more still wonder.
Now, as powers once the sole preserve of mighty nation states are wielded by progressively smaller and smaller entities, as each and every human being perceives how he or she affects the world at large, the question becomes yet more pressing. And so it is asked again: How should we live?
This book does not contain the answer — the question has no ultimate end — but it does offer an answer as the basis for a new beginning. The book is itself a journey — of beginnings and endings and beginning again. Read it and travel — along the way you may remember your own dreams and discover more.
Read it and you will never be the same again. Let it pass unread and still you will be changed. How will you change? The choice is yours.
Now, as powers once the sole preserve of mighty nation states are wielded by progressively smaller and smaller entities, as each and every human being perceives how he or she affects the world at large, the question becomes yet more pressing. And so it is asked again: How should we live?
This book does not contain the answer — the question has no ultimate end — but it does offer an answer as the basis for a new beginning. The book is itself a journey — of beginnings and endings and beginning again. Read it and travel — along the way you may remember your own dreams and discover more.
Read it and you will never be the same again. Let it pass unread and still you will be changed. How will you change? The choice is yours.
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