Abbie Spence,
Philosophy-Lit Major
Time Travel and
Changing History
The Robinson Crusoe
Connection
About the Author and
his Next Book
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ISLAND WOMAN: AN OFFBEAT HEROINE
Philosophy and literature are her raison d'être. Explaining why she took a job at a plant nursery after graduation, Abbie says,
I liked the menial work not only because I was outside, but because I could concentrate on ideas of great thinkers—you know, Kierkegaard or Camus or Plato. To me I was carrying on the Reed way of life. Ideas don't stay in the classroom but enter your everyday world.
Abbie's B.A. degree is from Reed College, which Loren Pope, former education editor of the New York Times, calls "the most intellectual college in the country." But is this a help or a hindrance in the religious, authoritarian world of New Spain? Abbie manages to hold her own by leaning heavily on her friends:
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"The Truth is a terrible thing. It is much darker,much sadder, much more ignoble, much more inhuman and ironical than most of us are willing to admit, or even to suspect."—George Santayana |
