Many have talked about gazing at the stars. Have you ever flung a star out into the cosmos? From Darwin to Einstein to Freud, Eiseley’s readers journey with him along a course leading back to the starfish thrower of Costabel and an experience destined to change his life. Unknown to the thrower, he stands in the arc of a flawless rainbow, a mythic figure of compassion as well as creativity, a hurler of suns, a sower of life among the galaxies.Īgainst the backdrop of his encounter with the “star thrower”, Eiseley re- thinks the critically austere mind-set of his profession as scientist as well as the haunting “trickster” nature of the universe. With sure and graceful motion he hurls the living stars back into the sea. For it was men as well as starfish that we sought to save.Īmong the best known essays of celebrated naturalist, Loren Eiseley, THE STAR THROWER stands as a profound and beautiful expression of the human spirit.Ī solitary figure encountered at dawn on the wave-beaten shores of Costabel, the star thrower reaches into the boiling surf rescuing stranded starfish from certain death. I could have thrown in a frenzy of joy, but I set my shoulders and cast, as the thrower in the rainbow cast, slowly, deliberately and well.
A musical dramatization of the essay by Loren Eiseley.
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