Creating Space

Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw

Of all the authors my literature classes introduced me to, Shaw may be the one I’m most thankful for.  He was an optimist, and a forward thinker.  He had a sense of humor and a strong point of view.  Back to Methuselah is a play in five acts.  It’s meant more to be read than performed.  The first act starts at the dawn of humanity, and each one moves ahead into the future, finally ending at “Summer afternoon in the year 31,920 AD.”  It’s interesting to see what this thinker born in 1856 projected for humanity’s brilliant development.