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.
Day By Day
Monday, April 23, 2007
David Halberstam is Dead
He was killed in a car crash. Already I miss him. He was wrong -- terribly, destructively wrong on just about everything, especially Vietnam -- but he was one of the most influential and interesting writers of our times.
