How Long to Read Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky

How Long Does it Take to Read Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 50 minutes to read Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky by Wallace Shawn

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking." TONI MORRISON "Endlessly curious, playful, and subtle." PANKAJ MISHRA SLEEPING AMONG SHEEP UNDER A STARRY SKY is a collection of essays written over the course of the last thirty-five years. Shawn seems to start from the premise that the world ought to be a place where all of us can lie around on cushions writing letters and love poems to each other on multi-coloured paper, as perhaps the women and men of the eleventh-century Heian court in Japan were able to do. Why do we not inhabit a world in which beauty, sensuality, and the adoration of other people, other beings, and the natural world are our principal preoccupations? Why, instead, are we obsessed with a joyless struggle for supremacy over each other? Why have we invented races and nations? Is what we call "civilization" the precipitating cause of our destructiveness and viciousness, our sadism, our love of murder? Shawn himself grew up as a child of privilege and has devoted his life to aesthetic pursuits and hedonism. Has the life he's led provided him with any sort of valuable vantage point from which to view the world, or has he simply been a parasite? As he himself feels that the answer isn't clear, a certain self-questioning underlies these essays, along with a nagging doubt about whether we're right to insist that all of our different qualities and aspects cohere into a single "self." If the self is simply an illusion, how can we understand "ourselves"? And if we don't understand ourselves, what conclusions should we draw from that?

How long is Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky?

Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky by Wallace Shawn is 170 pages long, and a total of 42,500 words.

This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 52 minutes to read Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky aloud.

What Reading Level is Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky?

Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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