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
Friday, November 30, 2007
Happy Birthday Jacques
Jacques Barzun is 100 today. Nobody in the past century has contributed more to the intellectual life of this nation than he.
