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Topic: Space metaphors in non-space books
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music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 06-30-2009 01:38 PM
   
Since I buy a lot of space books on Amazon, I receive notifications by the online retailer when new books seem to be space-related.Hence I received this suggestion: Burn Up Or Splash Down , with a nice illustration of an Apollo-type capsule under parachute. The subject has nothing to do with space, but reentry as a metaphor illustrates the topic, as seen by its author: Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to reenter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves confused and in a state of panic at coming "home." Oddly, among the very few books covering this topic (a trauma I went through myself after touring for Cirque du Soleil), there is another one using reentry as a metaphor: Re-Entry: Making the Transition from Missions to Life at Home , with, this time, an Orbiter reentry as the illustration.Interesting, isn't it? ------------------
Francois Guay
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