The Really Serious Book Club met at the home of Bill and Susan Imbriale to discuss The Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian, one of the originators of the “Big History” notion. This book addresses the origins of the universe, of humankind, of civilizations, of science and culture and, toward the end, what many of the developments in technology
and culture bode for future parts of mankind’s civilization.
Our group engaged in speculation about, and dissection of the past. We split apart some elements of Christian’s thesis and recombined them into recognizable components, whales and dogs included.
Our next book will be Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick, a story of an epic voyage of discovery for science and land mapping made about 1830 by a flotilla sent off by the young United States of America. If you would like to join us, call Norton Schwartz at (949) 481-2459.
—Norton Schwartz
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