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Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

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<strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Doria</strong> <strong>Russell</strong>, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Sparrow</strong><br />

Particularly for musicians in the class --<br />

<strong>The</strong> Jesuit mission was drawn to Rakhat initially by the<br />

music heard at Arecibo.<br />

If <strong>The</strong> <strong>Sparrow</strong> came with a CD, what might the music<br />

sound like?<br />

P. 191 -- Father Alan Pace, the first to die on Rakhat, said at<br />

one point, “Music may very well afford us our only means<br />

of communication.” (p. 151) If Alan had lived longer, might<br />

the Jesuit mission have turned out differently? Can you<br />

imagine forming a musical group across species boundaries?

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