Post by hollister on Aug 14, 2006 13:47:05 GMT -7
I picked up a very interesting book the other day -
The book is titled "Night Watch" by Sergei Lukyanenko
The book is actually a trilogy of short stories. They all tackle the problem of good vs evil and the grey in between. Here defined as a struggle between the Light and the Dark and those who attempt (on both sides) to maintain some type of balance. While the sides may appear to be clear cut the good/Light and the evil/Dark. The choices made the maintain the balance as not so clear cut. In Lukyanenko's world the agent of good often finds must do something they personally define as repugnant while the dark agent may appear to do the higher minded thing. As one of the characters defined it at one point - the choice you make to do good or evil in based on your choice of doing something for personal gain or societal balance. The problem is that the struggle to keeping making choices for good for of others is that you never reach a place where you can be at rest - the path requires that you continually struggle and keep being forced to make the choice between good/light and evil/dark. While the path of the dark lead to immediate gratification and a sense of fulfillment. (Have I lost you yet?
)
I will leave you with a quote I can't seem to get out of my head.
"That's a part of the truth too, Sveta, we're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth is always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant." pg. 227
The author was born in Kazakhstan and trained as a psychiatrist
The book is titled "Night Watch" by Sergei Lukyanenko
The book is actually a trilogy of short stories. They all tackle the problem of good vs evil and the grey in between. Here defined as a struggle between the Light and the Dark and those who attempt (on both sides) to maintain some type of balance. While the sides may appear to be clear cut the good/Light and the evil/Dark. The choices made the maintain the balance as not so clear cut. In Lukyanenko's world the agent of good often finds must do something they personally define as repugnant while the dark agent may appear to do the higher minded thing. As one of the characters defined it at one point - the choice you make to do good or evil in based on your choice of doing something for personal gain or societal balance. The problem is that the struggle to keeping making choices for good for of others is that you never reach a place where you can be at rest - the path requires that you continually struggle and keep being forced to make the choice between good/light and evil/dark. While the path of the dark lead to immediate gratification and a sense of fulfillment. (Have I lost you yet?
)I will leave you with a quote I can't seem to get out of my head.
"That's a part of the truth too, Sveta, we're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth is always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant." pg. 227
The author was born in Kazakhstan and trained as a psychiatrist
