Canticle For Leibowitz: Walter Miller
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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 desc ....
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important to the design of the circuit. Francis is set on mindlessly copying
the blueprint he does not realize what the circuit design is for, and what is
does. Brother Francis thinks regressively. The monks copy out the blueprints,
and then do nothing with them. As a society we do the same thing today. In
school students copy notes off the blackboard blindly, they do not know what
they are copying. Therefore, they do not understand the content.
Not only does Miller also poke fun ....
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