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
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
WFB -- RIP
One of the great ones has passed. I never met William F. Buckley, but for many years his TV image was a frequent guest in my living room. I was an avid fan of "Firing Line" and reader of his magazine, National Review. Those who knew him best -- his friends and colleagues -- have expressed their and the nation's loss far better than I ever could.
Read about him here.