Sophie

Sophie Sophie's World is about the life of a 14 year-old girl called Sophie Amundsen. It takes you on a journey though 3000 years of Western philosophy, presenting important and in most cases annoying questions. This is the explanation of philosophy and philosophers given in the book: "A white rabbit is pulled out of a top hat. Because it is an extremely large rabbit, the trick takes many billions of years. All mortals are born at the very tip of the rabbit's fine hairs, where they are in a position to wonder at the impossibility of the trick. But as they grow older they work themselves ever deeper into the fur. And there they stay. They become so comfortable they never risk crawling up the fragile hairs again. Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care. 'What a bunch of troublemakers!' they say. And keep on chatting: Would you pass the butter sophie, book, philosophy, world, questions, people, out, hilde, find, about, yell, years, very, trick, themselves, takes, rabbit, postcards, philosophers, important, herself, hairs, fall, existence, course, care, alberto, year-old, work, wonder, white, western, trying, troublemakers', top, tomatoes