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.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Lessing Said the Better
Doris Lessing's reaction to being informed that she had just won the Nobel Prize for Literature.