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, July 14, 2008
Happy Bastille Day
In order to understand the difference between the United States and Europe one need only contemplate the difference between how our American Revolution and France's copycat effort turned out.