Bowmaker

A sequel to Sinclair Lewis’ Arrowsmith on its centennial

Bowmaker is a philosophical treatise disguised as a novel with a narrative interspersed with Socratic-like dialogues, many quotations, some poems, and an occasional dream. Taking a cue from Lee’s interpretation of “timschel” in East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Bowmaker promotes choice as an alternative to Newtonian determinism and neoDarwinian randomness. A quantum gravity is offered in a Leibnizesque Cosa-dology and the poem La Teoría de Todas las Cosas that replaces Einstein’s continuous spacetime with quantal space(choice). This opens the door to free will. (If that is not fantasy enough, you may find entertaining the geometric derivation of the entropy of a black hole and the explanation that inside a black hole there is “nada.”)