Runester

I ran across an interesting book in the book in Borders, yesterday. It’s called The game of Life and was written in 1925 by one Florence Scovel Shinn. The book is very thin and I’ll have finished it by today. What is so interesting to me, is that the concepts are so similar to what I’ve been reading recently, written by very contemporary authors.

The general theme is something like “the power of positive thinking” meets “divine faith makes all things possible”. The wording is dated, and she uses metaphors that include “a victrola” … an early phonograph player. Other then the old-tech and the turn-of-the-century phrasing, her message is nearly identical to Wayne Dryer and others.

On the one hand, this implies that really great ideas and universal truths are never too dated and always timely. On the other hand, these modern authors who have “discovered for themselves” something that has been around for 80+ years … is questionable.