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    <![CDATA[Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit]]>
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    <![CDATA[The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man  in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local  newspaper from a teacher looking for serious  pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned  office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling  delicately on a slender branch. &quot;You are the  teacher?&quot; he asks incredulously. &quot;I am  the teacher,&quot; the gorilla replies. Ishmael is  a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story  to tell, one that no other human being has ever  heard. It is a story that extends backward and  forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth  of time to a future there is still time save.  Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the  lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to  come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny  to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny  possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever  imagined?]]>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick read, well written, philosophical, engaging. Articulated many things I have thought and shed some new light on many other things.]]></body>
    
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