![]() ![]() The idea that precious things, such as beauty, or even texts and histories, would be lost in such cataclysm, was also central to the television series “Lost. In Lost Horizon, it is suggested that utopia (Shangri-la)–peace, happiness, and longevity–inhabits a Tibetan lamasery high in the mountainous wilderness, but the book’s idealism became overwhelmed in the rhetoric of war happening in real life. One such motif was the idea of a lost paradise that held some sort of magical quality about it that everyone was just dying to get to, if they only knew the place existed in the first place. Of all the emotions that may be stirred in one during the current Coronavirus lockdown, tranquility is perhaps not the most obvious choice. ![]() ![]() I took a special interest in the book when watching the television show “Lost,” which had numerous mythological and literary (and other) references in it, including to Lost Horizon. Though not really an unpopular book in need of rescue, it is quite old and probably not as widely read today as it was when it was published in 1933. I have this book on Kindle, but can’t pass up such a classic hard copy in good shape. I was happy to find this old book at the Value Village in Burquitlam. ![]()
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