Knowledge as a Double Edged Sword in the novels Oryx and Crake as well as A Canticle for Leibowitz

Knowledge is the foundation of human wisdom and wisdom, which also becomes a factor to destroy mankind. Today's knowledge plays an important role in almost every aspect of human life, from food to water and providing a foundation for all technologies. Knowledge also provides us more imaginative and efficient means to kill and destroy each other and the earth, but these include nuclear weapons and of course biological weapons.

In the world of "Antelope and pheasant" - the future is a civilization before the earthquake - people can feel the influence of Dennis · Johnson's "Fiskadoro" or a small Walter · M · Miller's "A Bokle for Libowitz" it can. A fantasy fantasy of biological evolution and technology in the novel, one can distinguish the dark left hand of Ursula K. Le Guin, and within that shoulder it leads the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut The end of entertainment is. Indeed, pathological jokes and poor experiments are provided as rough equivalents, which themselves become meteors of life through the technical alchemy of the novel.

This reminds me of the novel, one of my favorite novels, and the first novel when I boarded the ship at St. Edward High School in Austin, Texas. The novel is A Canticle by Walter M. Miller Jr for Leibowitz. In 1997 when it appeared, I read the women of the sequel St. Leibovitz and Mustang. About the same time, I read the underworld of Don DeLillo. The exchange of Howard and these three books led to this: at some point in 1960, Neo-Gothic style chapels at St. Edward High School in Austin, Texas (drawn by HNPharr II from the Edward era of 1961 ) Inside the cover), the monks of the Holy Cross church and their words chant tantam ergo. The blessing of the night was interrupted by the air raid siren, and the siren reverberated from the wall and the high ceiling. At the nearby strategic Air Force command base, Bergstrom, the B - 52D bomber equipped with the atomic bomb took off. We evacuated to the basement. Brother C.S.C. of Peter Celestine said "Sursum corda; oremus".