I just finished reading this particular book for the second time and I enjoyed it as much as I did when I first read it. An old book which yellow in color and seasoned from the years and some of the pages in it no longer attached to its cover, I don’t remember where I got it from but it was just there and I am glad that I chose to read it.
The book entitled Banco, the further adventures of Papillon was written by Henri Charriere in French and was translated by some dude. It’s an autobiography, and one of the best I’ve read.
Having said that, I don’t think or feel like elaborating more on the book. There were many interesting phrases, philosophies, thoughts and opinion that caught my interest. And there was this one that I am particularly attracted in and this was it:
“You aren’t even capable of settling down to living for the sake of living. Is life made up more than never ending battles between men who don’t share the same ideology?
True enough you have had more intellectual training than the more disadvantaged lots, but what of it? What good is it to you since you’re a more stupid bunch of sods than they are? As far as you’re concerns education doesn’t means intelligence, generosity, goodness and understanding but only learning things from the books. If your heart stays dry, selfish rancorous and fossilized, what you’ve learn doesn’t mean a thing. God made the sun, the sea, the vast prairies and the bush, but did he make them just for you?
Do you think you’re a race pre-ordained to organize the world? When I look at you and listen to you, it occurs to me that a world run by poor sods like you will mean nothing but war and revolutions. Because although you say you long for peace and quiet, you only long for it if it agrees with your point of view.”
