Mark Twain said, “The world will lament you for an hour and forget you forever.” Solomon begins with the same observation: Life passes, and instead of rewarding you it grinds you up. Solomon's Sequential Approach Solomon systematically works through all of our human attempts to define meaning. The book is not linear, so at first glance to our Western eyes, it does appear to be a random collection of proverbs. But there is a very logical progression to it. Because Solomon is writing from the perspective