[krelian]

>As an engineer, I live in a world full of definitions and determinate actions and consequences. Literature is what I have access to that constantly reminds me that there is more that meets the eye and truths are relative

It's a truth I dreadfully came to realize over the last few years. Not about literature, although that is a great way to figure it out and enforce the sensation, but about the world. Ideas, things that I took for granted for so long with my scientific and data nurtured mind no longer have the same hold. Like a glacier that forever seemed eternal they are now melting but not have not yet melted completely, I cannot see what's behind the glacier. That's were the dread comes in.

[itronitron]

You might want to read 'The Crying of Lot 49' by Thomas Pynchon, or not. It's a fairly short book.

[krelian]

Thanks. I've been meaning to start reading Pynchon for a while now. This gives him another boost in the proverbial ladder.