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Essay Archive - Canticle For Leibowitz: Walter Miller
Canticle For Leibowitz: Walter Miller
Walter Miller, in the novel A Canticle For Leibowitz, mocks the way we
are as humans, particularly in those ways that lead to regressive thinking. The
novel pokes fun at the attention to impractical details, such as to the spent
copying the Leibowitz blueprints. Miller also mocks humans by describing the
inordinate amount of attention and energy given to a spiritual being such as
Leibowitz, as today's society worships God. Finally, the most absurd way Miller
mocks today's society occurs when he describes how they do not give something
very important the considered attention that ....
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