Tom Robbins is an American novelist who was born in the South and has lived in and around Seattle since 1962. He writes with a very unique style, incorporating humor, wild and entertaining plots, imagination, and crudeness into his work. He has many intriguing ideas and opinions on aspects of life and living in general that he discusses in his writing and this really draws in and makes the reader think. Robbins has written many bestselling novels, of which includes The Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. This book is about a man named Switters, a CIA agent who is in his mid 30s and is very close with his dont-call-me-grandma-Maestra. Sitters is a living contradiction; he is an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries
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Society and the people who influence and control it, often try to stamp out rebelliousness; however, the rebelliousness can never be trained out of the real human beings so that they fall in line behind the missing links.
Beauty and the appreciation of it is a quality of real human beings that is so often usurped by the impulse to fit into cultural norms. Humans can create and experience beauty in countless ways. It is a beautiful thing that humans are able to appreciate the universe and life in such a way. Aesthetics are simply here to be beautiful and bring pleasure. Another important quality is spirituality. This one seems somewhat contradictory within The Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates because Switters doesn’t believe in believing and yet he seems to believe in a lot: “My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it” (Robbins 241)? Spirituality has driven the human race since the beginning. Christianity, the most practiced religion in the world, revolves around the human soul going to either Heaven or Hell after the death of the physical body. In Hinduism, one of the world's oldest religions, the atman, or “eternal self” refers to the real self beyond the ego or the false self. Although religion is spiritual, spirituality is not necessarily something of religion. It is not only the concept of the human soul, but the souls of all life on this planet, or even in the entire universe. It is the belief in something beyond the physical world, something more
Society and the people who influence and control it, often try to stamp out rebelliousness; however, the rebelliousness can never be trained out of the real human beings so that they fall in line behind the missing links.
Beauty and the appreciation of it is a quality of real human beings that is so often usurped by the impulse to fit into cultural norms. Humans can create and experience beauty in countless ways. It is a beautiful thing that humans are able to appreciate the universe and life in such a way. Aesthetics are simply here to be beautiful and bring pleasure. Another important quality is spirituality. This one seems somewhat contradictory within The Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates because Switters doesn’t believe in believing and yet he seems to believe in a lot: “My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it” (Robbins 241)? Spirituality has driven the human race since the beginning. Christianity, the most practiced religion in the world, revolves around the human soul going to either Heaven or Hell after the death of the physical body. In Hinduism, one of the world's oldest religions, the atman, or “eternal self” refers to the real self beyond the ego or the false self. Although religion is spiritual, spirituality is not necessarily something of religion. It is not only the concept of the human soul, but the souls of all life on this planet, or even in the entire universe. It is the belief in something beyond the physical world, something more