#perspective

#perspective

I'm very grateful to be doing what I'm doing, and when I feel like I don't want to do a video, it's like, 'That's what you're upset about, you don't want to be silly today?' he says. 'Like I would be killing myself trying to finish financial statements or worrying about having to fire someone at the gym because they weren't doing their job where I could potentially be ruining their lives,

The Third Realm is quite different from the first two books in Knausgard's Morning Star series, even though the characters come from the earlier novels. With breathtaking confidence, Knausgard mirrors the first book, The Morning Star, giving us other, richer perspectives on the material. The book opens and closes with Tove, the manic-depressive wife of the jaded academic Arne. And her mix of despair and insight, humour and visionary brilliance turns out to be what these novels need most.

The desire to see the world from above transcends cultures and time - an almost instinctive impulse to seek new horizons, gain perspective, and momentarily step outside everyday life.

An imagined historian in 2100 would analyze our current age through the lens of significant historical transitions, highlighting both the monumental and the minor details that shaped America.