Episode 187 - Norwegian Wood

About this Episode

Nevil Shute, whose proper name was Nevil Shute Norway, was a British novelist whose work took an odd turn in mid-career.  He was a kind of parasitologist of human nature, always asking the big questions:

Why do people act the way they do? How does the past affect the present?
Is there something more to it that is beyond the apparent? Shute thought there was, but he was a tentative explorer. (He was also a churchgoer.) Did he pierce "the veil"? My answer to that is maybe.