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
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Yeltsin
Anne Applebaum over at Slate has a nice assessment of Boris Yeltsin's role in the most important events of our lifetimes. Read it here.
