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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
Excellent book, I would definitely recommend it. Not that I've finished it or anything, but so far so rad.
Basically, what I've read up to this point talks about lightness and weight, and how people either go through life heavily, gravitating toward hardship and locked in by their own rules, or they float through life, making it up as they go and not being tied down by right or wrong, merely living for the sake of pleasure. So you'd think that the latter would end up happier, right? It seems like a more tantalizing, tempting, easier way to live.. but oddly enough, rumour has it that all the characters (four in total, two being characterized by lightness, the others by weight), except for one die. And the remaining one, who is "light", isn't even that happy. Now you can either draw two conclusions from this summary (once again, haven't finished reading:
1. Life sucks no matter how you live it, may as well give up now.
2. Live with moderation. But that's hard! You can't really be light and heavy at the same time, can you? Kundera states at the very beginning that the two are polar opposites.. so can they mix?
I am pondering.
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