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- Short pieces by women who "survived" atomic blasts
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White Flash/Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb
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Short pieces by women who "survived" atomic blasts.......2005-02-28
It is very good for all people to go back and read the accounts of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Humans find it easy to forget just how destructive nuclear weapons are and what they do to people. This book is a collection of short pieces written by Japanese women who survived the blasts and they are very strong. While there is criticism of the United States, the writers are also very critical of the militaristic mindset that led to Japan adopting expansionist policies. There is mention of the forcible "recruitment" of the Korean comfort women who "staffed" the brothels for the soldiers.
While death by other weapons is horrific, there is something particularly unsettling about atomic weapons. The accounts of people, whose skin is melted off their bodies, an entire city leveled, and people instantly vaporized; leaving only a shadow on a wall cannot help but unnerve any sane person. Furthermore, it does not end there. Thousands of people survived the initial blast, only to die slower, more painful deaths from the radiation. Years after the blasts, thousands of people were still suffering from the events of the days of the blasts.
It should be a moral rule that the people who are in a position to order the use of nuclear weapons should read material describing what happens when they are used. This book is a powerful work of historical literature, a depiction of the greatest acts of instantaneous destruction that the world has ever seen. One can only hope that similar events will never occur again and that nuclear weapons will always serve one and only one purpose. Which is as a deterrent to war, preventing all sides from escalating a small conflict into one of simultaneous societal suicide.
Haunting and Lyrical .......2004-07-21
I read this book in a Women's History course. White Flash Black Rain contains searing, beautiful poems and articles by women who experienced the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. Some of the women whose work is included did not live long after they wrote their pieces. Why, you can guess.
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A refreshing perspective.......2007-10-01
The reason I love Cox & Forkum is because their work is a much needed alternative to your usual liberal leaning editorial cartoon work (I'm not making this up, even Dan Cagle admits it). That being said, the artwork is excellent and the viewpoints fresh.
It's about time!.......2006-02-24
The artwork is awesome and the commentary is spot on!
In a world were we are choking on the fumes and gas-baggery of the leftist editorial cartoonists, it is so refreshing to have a common sense/conservative voice publishing editorial commentary.
I've seen this before.......2005-10-21
I don't find humor in depicting Palestinians and Arabs as subhuman, reveling in war and degrading people from other cultures.
A Litmus Test For a Sense of Humor.......2005-08-22
A good political cartoon should make one laugh even if one disagrees with the politics. Although I do not agree with its take on things, I nonetheless am a fan of This Modern World, a political cartoon by Tom Tomorrow. The art is original and it expresses its ideas in an equally original, and funny, manner even though I typically disagree with them.
It would be nice to think that others would feel the same way about BLACK & WHITE WORLD II. The artwork is among the best I have seen in political cartooning and the cartoons express ideas in an original and hilarious way. Cox and Forkum are extremely good at taking some current event, distilling it down to a basic idea and presenting that idea in a visual format that knocks the reader for a loop. As a bonus, many cartoons are accompanied by commentary placing them in context so that they may be appreciated even more.
Cox and Forkum, however, are not blind devotees of conservatism. Forkum is an avowed Objectivist influenced by the philosophy of Ayn Rand and one suspects Cox is as well. Many of their cartoons therefore take shots at the political right over such things as interfering with the free market and introducing religion into the public sphere. I was a little surprised at how many times George W. Bush took it on the chin in this volume.
BLACK & WHITE WORLD II is a good litmus test to determine whether one has a good sense of humor. This is true for conservatives as, again, the authors are not cheerleaders for that cause. But it is even more so for a person on the left as any liberal who cannot crack a smile over this book really, really needs to chill out.
1st rate.......2005-01-07
Cox and forkum's 2nd effort Black & White World II is an excellent collection of cartoons by the #1 conservative artests in the country.
Not only does it repeat many cartoons from their web site and from LGF (Little Green Footballs) it contains commentary by Charles Johnson, Felix grabowski and Robert Tracinski as well. It also throws in a few drawings not seen before.
It is all worthwhile and worth your money.
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In the first book to focus on African American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries, but it succeeded in rallying black Americans in the struggle for civil rights.
Black internationalism emphasized the role of race or color in world politics and linked the domestic struggle of African Americans with the freedom struggle of emerging nations "of color," such as India and much of Africa. In the early twentieth century, black internationalists, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, embraced Japan as a potential champion of the darker races, despite Japan's imperialism in China. After Pearl Harbor, black internationalists reversed their position and identified Nationalist China as an ally in the war against racism.
In the end, black internationalism was unsuccessful as an interpretation of international affairs. The failed quest for alliances with Japan and China, Gallicchio argues, foreshadowed the difficulty black Americans would encounter in seeking redress for American racism in the international arena.
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Features 90 landmark vehicles from 1900-1945 shown in over 370 colour and black-and-white archive photographs
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Here is the true history of a friendship that almost wasn’t. John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun grew up in the same neighborhood and were in the same third grade class together. They were classmates— not friends—because Herb was white and John was black. John and Herb were twenty-one when the United States entered WWII. Herb became an Army Air Forces B-17 bomber pilot. John flew P-51 fighters. Both were thrown into the brutal high-altitude bomber war against Nazi Germany, though they never met because the army was rigidly segregated— only in the air were black and white American fliers allowed to mix. Both came safely home but it took Herb and John another fifty years to meet again and discover that their lives had run almost side by side through war and peace. Old friends at last, Herb and John launched a mission to tell young people why race once made all the difference and why it shouldn’t anymore.
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Making a sound like thunder.......2007-09-14
Fun Fact: If you want to get the attention of a class of sixth graders, tell `em about a book where a guy blew a metal rod through the top of his skull and lived. That'll wake the little buggers up! Yes, when it comes
to booktalking a work of non-fiction to kids, I've relied on John Fleischman and his book, Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science for years. Insofar as I could ever tell, this was Fleischman's one and only contribution to the world of children's literature, and it was a doozy. Science is rarely so simultaneously gory and well-written. I suppose I had the feeling that maybe Fleischman was some kind of one hit wonder. I mean, he spends most of his time writing scientific articles for journals like Muse and Harvard Health Letter. He also writes for Air & Space Smithsonian, which, had I but known, would have made his latest book a little less left-fieldish for me. "Black and White Airmen: Their True History" is exactly what you want out of your historical non-fiction for kids. It strikes just the right balance of personal stories, historical clarifications, and exciting air battles.
They grew up in the same town, were in the same third grade class, and fought practically side-by-side in the same air battles, but John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun didn't know one another until the year 1997. At that time, Herb read in the paper that the mayor of Cincinnati would be presenting a public award to some Tuskegee pilots not too far away. So Herb crashed the reception. He wanted to thank the guys who'd covered his tail during multiple escort missions and in doing so he met John. Herb and John became fast friends, finding that they had more in common than they had ever expected. Through their eyes, Fleischman tells the story of Fifteenth Air Force and the Tuskegee airmen. He draws attention to racial lines and divides at that time then brings you face-to-face with what it meant to fly an airplane during the Great War. The author is adept at making this a very personal story at one moment and a look at history the next without ever straining his narrative or cutting too quickly. It makes for a startlingly good story.
For kids, the notion that your grandparents and great-grandparents were ever children can be baffling. Baffling and more than a little inconceivable. You might concede that they were capable of fighting in a massive war more than 60 years ago, but that they were ever kids running about reading comic books? Go pull the other one. So some of the best parts of this book come when you see contemporary John and Herb going to classrooms and showing classes a picture of the two of them in third grade. That was part of what I really liked about this title. You see enough of our two heroes as kids to give them some depth and history, but not so much that you get bored waiting for the action to start.
Now a book of this sort becomes a very delicate balancing act early in the game. On the one hand, Fleischman must have known how important it was to give history and context to racism in America during the Second World War. Tying this into John's story is easy enough, considering some of the challenges he faced. But when you write a book about a black pilot and white pilot, the temptation is going to be to sort of ignore the white pilot's tale in favor of the more exciting black pilot's narrative. Fleischman does a good job of evening out the storyline without padding it out or filling it with unnecessary information. Even as you find yourself on Herb's side, you can't help but notice how unfair John's life was in comparison. A kid's temptation would be to blame Herb for his race's stupidities, but Fleischman never allows that to happen. In a way, this book felt like a slightly more fleshed out version of Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement, which paired the stories of a black and a white civil rights activist and their shared experiences in participating in the 1961 Freedom Rides. Yet I found this title superior in terms of showing the ties between the lead characters while really pulling you into their story. Both are great books, but this one felt a little slicker in the delivery.
The portions dealing with racism in America are just great. There are sentences like, "the color line in Cincinnati was invisible in law but razor sharp in daily life." And darned if the author doesn't actually make me interested in airplane and air battles. Admittedly my own grandfather was a pilot in WWII, but I'd never thought to research what he would have gone through in the air. Fleischman includes all sorts of interesting mentions. Planes needed an overhaul if they had five hundred hours "on the clock" (i.e. in the air). You may not think much of that fact when you first hear about it, but when Herb is later given a plane with 521 hours on it, you know he's in for trouble. And exciting? You betcha. There's one moment where Herb tears every single muscle in his upper back just by wrestling his B-17 into formation and then he has to continue to fly it alone through a five-hour mission because his co-pilot was paralyzed by fear and almost killed the entire crew... whew!
A co-worker of mine pointed out that for some kids, certain sections are going to grab their attention more than others. There are definitely child readers out there for whom air battles and combat via planes is going to be the primary focus of their interest with this book. Other kids will want to know about the Tuskegee airmen, and maybe only look at the book from that perspective. Still others might need to find WWII biographies, and this title certainly has two. I like to think that it's the personal stories that will allow some kids to read this book cover to cover, growing close to the real life characters. When Herb finds out that his best friend during the war that he thought was dead turns out, fifty years later, to be alive and living in Minnesota, THAT is amazing and makes for a great read.
Abundant photographs pepper the pages of this book, keeping the eye moving without ever distracting. Fleischman has eschewed the use of pullout boxes or entire pages dedicated to a related topic that pull away from the narrative. This is a smart choice on his part. And while I rarely see authors of non-fiction children's titles justify their lack of source notes, Fleischman is careful to point out that, "I leave source notes to scholars who write about History." Aside from the first-person interviews Fleischman conducted to get much of his information, there is also a nice list of Resources for kids under topics like "For the Tuskegees", "For the air war in general", "For the air war at the movies", etc. An Index is included in the back.
One of the very first things Fleischman says of this true story is, "We have all sorts of `true' stories today that aren't entirely true... True books like this one are usually called `nonfiction,' which is a funny word. All it guarantees is that this book is `not fiction,' that is, that I didn't make it up entirely. Imagine if food were labeled that way; imagine that the ingredients listed on an ice cream wrapper said only `Not stones.'". Be that as it may be, I'll take Fleischman's "not stones" over that of his contemporaries any day of the week. "Black and White Airmen" mixes different kinds of history topics alongside personal recollections with flair. The result is a book I'll be handing to any kid doing a WWII assignment or just wanting to know more about some of the great men who served so long ago.
Parallel Journeys.......2007-08-21
Two boys from Miss Pitchell's third grade class in 1928 Cincinatti, Ohio grew up to be World War II pilots. John Leahr was one of the famed "Tuskegee Airmen", African-American pilots who flew for the United States even as they were being systematically oppressed. Herb Heilbrun flew bombers over Europe completing 35 successful missions. The parallel stories of these two men are told in BLACK AND WHITE AIRMEN: THEIR TRUE HISTORY.
Full of photographs and primary sources, this book is a fascinating look at the different wartime experiences of military men in the segregated armed services. Leahr and Heilbrun became friends later in life and currently speak to students about their experiences. Fleischman details their childhoods, education, service records and their lives after the war. The narrative is exciting with many details that will keep any reader with the slightest interest in flying, history or wartime interested.
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Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era
John Darrell Sherwood
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“This riveting account of racial turmoil in the U.S. Navy will be of immense interest to any student of the Navy, the Vietnam War, the All-Volunteer Force, or race relations in the United States.”
—Eugenia C. Kiesling, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early 70s: the Vietnam War or America's turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two pivotal moments are rarely examined in tandem.
John Darrell Sherwood has mined the archives of the U.S. Navy and conducted scores of interviews with Vietnam veterans — both black and white — and other military personnel to reveal the full extent of racial unrest in the Navy during the Vietnam War era, as well as the Navy's attempts to control it. During the second half of the Vietnam War, the Navy witnessed some of the worst incidents of racial strife ever experienced by the American military. Sherwood introduces us to fierce encounters on American warships and bases, ranging from sit-down strikes to major race riots.
The Navy's journey from a state of racial polarization to one of relative harmony was not an easy one, and
Black Sailor, White Navy focuses on the most turbulent point in this road: the Vietnam War era.
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The Black world in literature for children: A bibliography of print and non-print materials, vol. II
Joyce White Mills
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- Great for anyone who served in WWII or who has relatives who did...
- When we were young again..
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Black, White and Gold
Lieutenant Commander Andrew Syka SC US
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A free-wheeling veteran commissary chief and his cronies rule below deck's society aboard a destroyer escort in the South Pacific during World War II. Those who interfere pay a price until they accept their "dutiful place." Aside from periodic tussles with the black chief steward, the commissary chief has his way until a newly-commissioned ensign arrives. The chief says that he will "tame and train" his boss and teach him about the "real Navy." The ensign's decisions rile the chief and irritate the stewards, a group he wishes to help. When he investigates the chiefs activities, sparks fly! Shipboard pranks, gambling, boxing, liberty, an equator crossing and a native girl add spice. A sailor's crazy and entertaining sea story.
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Great for anyone who served in WWII or who has relatives who did..........2006-03-02
Black, White and Gold may be fiction, but it reads much like a memoir, full of evocative detail that brings to life such disparate locales as San Francisco, Honolulu and below-decks in a US Navy vessel, all during World War II.
This reader is not particularly a war fiction buff, nor does she know much about the Navy, ships or boats. Nonetheless, she found herself drawn into the story, not so much for the characterizations (although there is a pleasant whiff of "Mr. Roberts" about the book), but for the details of time, place and shipboard life that vibrate with their veracity.
Definitely a book for anyone with an interest in the War in the South Pacific, naval life, wartime years, etc. This would make a great gift to a father or grandad who served in the Navy or Merchant Marines and to anyone serving now.
When we were young again.........2006-02-16
It didn't take reading more than the first half-dozen pages of Syka's book to have 50 years of my life suddenly dissapeared...I was back in the Navy again. Although the character's in his book have different names, and they served in different places from the people I knew, they were really the same people I lived with for four years of my life. Syka uniquely captures the feelings, attitudes, hopes and wishes on the addendum to The Greatest Generation, the men who served during the Korean Conflict. Syka has the ability to return the veterans of three wars to when they were living on the edge of where everthing in life, in the world, was happening. It is a great read.
Nick Karas
black white and gold.......2006-02-15
Fun book for light reading. Very fun much if you have been in the Navy post WW2
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Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan is a novel which was originally writtena nd published in 1898 by Morgan Robertson. This novel is the story of an ocean liner, called the Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic ocean after hitting an iceberg. There are many similarities between this novel and the facts in the sinking of the Titanic fourteen years later. Morgan Robertson revisited his work in 1912 after the sinking of the Titanic and made the ship larger as well as changing the ending of the story.
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A book that came out 15 years too early as "Futility," was then released around 1912 or other with a new name. For some reason. About a boat hitting an ice cube or something.
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Wreck of The Titan.......2007-04-11
This book violates the dictum, "Write what you know about." Living on an iceberg following loss of the ship? Polar bears in mid-ocean? With thoughts running together sans punctuation, this work reads like an outline of what the writer intended to expand into a book at some later time.
A good teaching tool.......2007-01-04
I bought this for my classroom, while I was teaching a unit on the Titanic. Lots of kids have borrowed it and are amazed that it was written before the Titanic. language is a little outdated, of course, and hard for some middle schoolers, but when they realize when it was written that makes sense. Worth having for the classroom
Futility: The Wreck of the Titan.......2006-03-22
This book was a surprise. After reading other reviews I didn't think it would be that great. I was pleased that the plot was thicker than I was expecting and the similarlites to the Titanic were really amazing. I wanted to read it because of my interest in the Titanic and to read this book that was written more than 10 years before the Titanic sank made it even better. The plot and characters were interesting and all in all it was a good read.
Get it for its historical novelty-value.......2005-01-28
I first learned of this book when reading Walter Lord's famous "A Night to Remember," which was of course later released as a fine film of the same name, and which Lord updated in the early 1980s with the wonderful follow-up novel, "The Night Lives On." At the beginning of "A Night to Remember," Lord alludes generously to Robertson's novel "Futility," about the fictional ship 'Titan' and its uncanny resemblence to the 'Titanic' both in physical dimensions and tragic sinking. From Lord's brief synopsis of Robertson's novel, I got the impression that "Futility" would be a comprehensive novel that went to great lengths to describe the ship (Titan), passengers, crew, disaster, and aftermath. I was very surprised when I opened the shipping box and instead received a very skimpy novelette, weighing in at a whole forty pages or so.
Although "Futility" does have eerie similarities with the actual Titanic disaster, which makes it immediately of high historical novelty value, as a stand-alone novel in its own right it is simply not a very well-written piece of fiction. It has some nice ideas that should have been further developed. The cataclysmic sinking of the Titan is contained in about 1/3 a page, and amounts to "struck an iceberg, fell flat on her side, the end."
Amazingly, the extreme cold of the North Atlantic never seems to be an issue, as it is never mentioned. The story centers around a disgraced former US navy officer who, after his fall, became an ordinary seaman on the Titan. The plot revolves around his love affair (or lack of one) with a former girlfriend. The story is filled with cheesy dialog (even for 1890s Victorian standards) and interminable soliloquies that will have the reader rolling his or her eyes and going "whatever."
The plot of this story can be summed up thus:
- Titan is a huge ship and represents Victorian decadence
- Rowlands (the disgraced officer) loves some girl who's married to someone else
- Girl mistakenly thinks Rowlands is trying to murder her toddler
- Ship hits iceberg
- Ship founders two paragraphs later
- Rowlands rescues his ex girlfriend's toddler
- Rowlands somehow defeats a 2,000 lb polar bear in hand to hand combat
- no one gets hypothermia
- the end.
This story is interesting insofar as its similarity to the Titanic disaster, but beyond that, it is doggerel.
Don't have,. Haven't read........2004-09-15
All I can say is that I would like to invest in an original copy of this book. I have heard about it for years and didn't realize it had been reprinted. The Titanic disaster has fascinated me most of my life. When the film came out I knew all of the historical characters' names, ranks, positions within the ship, etc. I have a rather large collection of books about the ship and the events surrounding its demise. This book would be a neat little lagniappe for my library, but only if it were a first edition.
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- A PERIOD PIECE
- Mediocre Novel with a Strange Coincidence
- Futility: The Wreck of the Titan
- Futility: Or The Wreck of the Titan 100th Anniversary ed.
- A terrible story about a great story
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Wreck of the Titan Or, Futility and Morgan Robertson the Man
Morgan Robertson
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A PERIOD PIECE.......2006-03-29
Keeping in mind the fact that one is reading a period novel, I found this to be a fine example of the genre.
The description of the Titan and its fate parallels that of the Titanic to a certain extent, and this brings into the equation, stories of Robertson's psychic abilities, as he is alleged to have had astral help in writing his novels.
For those wanting the story to be about the Titanic legend, there will be disappointments, as the ship is not the main focus of the story, but rather a background for the portrayal of one man's struggle to live an honest and fulfilling life.
John Rowland is a man who has plumbed the depths and is trying to rebuild his life on principles of honesty and hard work, but his past has caught up with him. The tale is one of triumph against the odds, and the importance of honesty, both to oneself and to others.
Altogether a most enjoyable read!
Mediocre Novel with a Strange Coincidence.......2006-01-15
Nearly everyone today is familiar with the fateful, April/1912, maiden voyage of the Titanic - the largest oceanliner ever built. But few are aware that 14 years earlier, Morgan Robertson had already written about the fateful, April/?, maiden voyage of the largest oceanliner ever built in his novel titled "Futility"; only it was named the "Titan". No doubt few are aware of this because "Futility" was not well written and did not sell many copies a hundred years ago.
The novel follows the trials of an ex-Naval officer, John Rowland, who battled alcoholism after being rejected by a woman he had grown infatuated with. Struggling to pick himself up, he lands a job as a common sailor on the maiden voyage of the largest oceanliner ever built - the Titan. On board, he runs into his old flame who is now married and a mother. However, she falsely believes that Rowland is out to kill her child. He is able to redeem himself in her eyes when the Titan strikes an iceberg, sinks a half a page later, and he rescues her child from sea.
Robertson's account of the sinking of the Titan was extremely short and had little bearing on the author's plot, which lacked any spark or fire to it. The only thing worthy in this prose is the author's imagination that dreamt up the Titan - he was able to imagine what the world's largest oceanliner would eventually look like with such accuracy that he nearly guessed it's name to the letter! Both the Titan and the Titanic were 70,000-ton vessels that could do 25 knots and hold 3,000 passengers. Both hit an iceberg in April (because that's the month of icebergs), both were considered "unsinkable", and both sunk with a great loss of life because both did not have enough life boats.
While this novel fails to entertain, the coincidence between the Titan and the Titanic is the reason that this mediocre novel is still being read today. And if anyone has ever attempted to write a new movie script and then checked it with online library sites of movie scripts only to find out that their idea was already thought of, then they'll know that this passing mention of the Titan was not that big a coincidence. In another words, if a classroom of students were given instructions to write a one-page description on the futuristic invention of the world's largest ship, train, plane, or building and to name it, the similarities that result from their common cultural programming would be there in those description just as Robertson's Titan was there 14 years before the Titanic.
Futility: The Wreck of the Titan.......2002-06-12
It seems to me that Morgan Robertson writes this novel from a deep inner conviction. Futility: The Wreck of the Titan is mentioned in the book Akashic Records; in a chapter titled Discovering Insights Into Your Future. - a book about Edgar Cayce's readings. Many of us have read Futility because of its precognitive rumblings and remains a curosity even today over 100 years later. How can we tune into the future is our burning question? I believe this can be explained using the psychology of Carl Jung who said that the work of a true artist reflects the artist as well as the collective at large (Two World Wars followed this work and that was a collective madness). In this case I suspected that Morgan Robertson wrote this book because his psyche erupted with the material he put in his book. He was compelled because the unconscious was warning him of a pending psychotic break or a bout with insanity. Symbolically a ship is the carrier of the ego and for a ship to sink into the depth of the ocean is a sure indication that such an individual is in danger of going down into the unconscious - as the sea is a symbol of the unconscious. I feel this interpertation is supported by the fact that in the other part of the book Morgan writes about My Skirmish With Madness. It is a fact that often times an inner event will line up with an outer event (1400+ souls went into the unconscious) and the psyche, which is not limited by time or space can "see" into the future and tied Morgan's struggle with sanity to that future event of the Titanic. I am sure many of us have had precognative dreams. Jung's idea was that most books and works of art come out of our eruptions from the psyche in the form of fantasy and dreams and mirror our inner psychological state of affairs. The psyche struggles to keep each individual in balance and warning about a pending imbalance is a part of the psyche's functioning.
Futility: Or The Wreck of the Titan 100th Anniversary ed........2000-03-29
Futility is valuable by the story preceeding the event. Futility demonstrates the futile idea that time flows from the PAST to the PRESENT and then on to the FUTURE. Futility is evidence of an old concept that the PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE influence each other.
It would be valuable to have more information on how the author became aware of the story he recorded as FUTILITY.
Futility is for the literate mind, but it is not for the literary mind.
A terrible story about a great story.......2000-01-05
Having had a relative on the real RMS Titanic and having had the unique opportunity of meeting the first person off the Titanic, I feel very close to the entire saga of the ill-fated White Star liner. The fact that "The Wreck of the Titan or Futility" parallel the true events of the RMS Titanic is the only reason why people now want to read this book. The fact of the matter is that "Futility" is more of a short story or novella than a real novel.
The writing doesn't begin to compare with that of Ring Lardner. Joseph Conrad, or Jack London. The dialog is stilted and none of the characters are very well fleshed out.
At best "Futility" is nothing mare than a quaint curiosity.
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Futility or The Wreck of the Titan
Morgan Robertson
Manufacturer: Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1599866986 |
Book Description
Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan is a novel which was originally writtena nd published in 1898 by Morgan Robertson. This novel is the story of an ocean liner, called the Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic ocean after hitting an iceberg. There are many similarities between this novel and the facts in the sinking of the Titanic fourteen years later. Morgan Robertson revisited his work in 1912 after the sinking of the Titanic and made the ship larger as well as changing the ending of the story.
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This is a fantastic story of a ship racing across the Atlantic. She was predicted as unsinkable but it collided with an iceberg and brought atrocious loss of life. Robertson has remarkably described the features of luxurious ship. Appealing!
Product Description
This is a fantastic story of a ship racing across the Atlantic. She was predicted as unsinkable but it collided with an iceberg and brought atrocious loss of life. Robertson has remarkably described the features of luxurious ship. Appealing!
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