To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Monday, May 22, 2006
Latest on Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- Putting a Face on Oppression
Suzanne Fields fills in some of the details of this courageous woman's life and what she means. [here]
And Christopher Hitchens weighs in again here.
Der Spiegel interviews her about her plans here. While at the American Enterprise Institute she plans to write a book titled "Shortcut to Enlightenment" in which the Prophet Mohammed visits the New York Public Library and there meets and has dialogues with Karl Popper, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich August von Hayek.
Sounds interesting. The ultimate theocrat encounters the enlightenment.
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