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RE: The Dark Side of a Creative Artist
The Prophet was on my mom's bookshelf as a kid along with other philosophers. My parents are boomers, and very aware of cold war and communism. I think works like The Prophet in the 70s really appealed to the cold war generation. I remember it being nested along side Ayn Rand, Edith Hamilton's Mythology, Parmedes(sp?), Homer, and books on Dead Sea Scrolls. I read it in pieces as a kid on lazy afternoons within the quiet of sunlight shafts on bland tan carpet.
Thanks, for sharing that. Yeah, my folks were fond of him, too... Then, again, my dad is Lebanese, so Gibran is really inescapable. He's also a formative influence on my work as a writer: a mix of Nietzsche, Blake and the Bible. I like the image of you reading him as a kid-- it's not unlike my experience :)