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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With MarriageThat one is difficult to answer because the scope has been so massive. A useful analogy from my childhood: When I was little, my parents once took me to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. We stood there together in the Hall of Oceans. My dad pointed up toward the ceiling at the life-БЂ‹sized model of the great blue whale that hung suspended over our heads. He tried to impress upon me the size of this gargantuan creature, but I could not see the whale. I was standing right underneath the whale, mind you, and I was staring directly up at the whale, but I could not absorb the whale. My mind had no mechanism for comprehending something so large. All I could see was the blue ceiling and the wonderment on everyone elseБЂ™s faces (obviously something exciting was happening here!), but I could not grasp the whale itself. ThatБЂ™s how I feel sometimes about Eat, Pray, Love. There came a point in that bookБЂ™s trajectory when I could no longer sanely absorb its dimensions, so I gave up trying and turned my attention to other pursuits ...» |
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