Hating perfection : a subtle search for the best possible world / John F. Williams.
Williams, John F., 1947-
2013
BD431 .W5157 2013 (Mapit)
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Title Hating perfection : a subtle search for the best possible world / John F. Williams.
Author Williams, John F., 1947-
Edition Rev. ed.
ISBN 9781616148751 (pbk.)
1616148756 (pbk.)
Imprint Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2013.
Language English
Description 373 p., [3] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number BD431 .W5157 2013
Summary The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence. In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or Kafka. This engrossing, strikingly original book invites you to experience your life in a new way. Hating Perfection weaves its stories together with an elegant logic. Our hateful world--painful, unjust, ruthless, fatal--stands revealed as the best of all possible worlds. flooded everywhere by a perfection both alien and addicting. What we want is different from what we get. But the reason why has a divine splendor. In this revised edition, Mr. Williams has added a postscript that addresses the well-known philosopher's paradox of the Chinese room. The author explains for the first time how we know that such a room as usually described would not have consciousness.
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The handbag
The siren
Hating perfection
Beer at Joe's
The black death
The exaltation of growing weeds
Heaven and hell together
Rain in Wuhan
Red and white
Dry bones
"What then must we do?"
The human style of interpreting the world
Lightness
Lee Ming crosses the street
THe waiter brings linguini
Ambition in the big universe
We the addicted
Flattening evil
Fiction
The measure of good and evil
The Guanagzhou train station
Subtlety and physical law
She walks in beauty on the night
The necessary failure of immortality
Whiskey Lao
High class prostitute
Sympathy for Genghis Khan
The murder of Mr. Smith
Dialogue on death
Why we exist
The world's peculiar structure
Moral status
Harry Lime
The blind masseuse of Tsingtao
The united opinion
One unique best world
The upper limit to the value of possible worlds
The upper limit to the quality of subtlety
Dynamics at the upper limit
The alien presence.

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