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 18, 2009
Hitchens and the Hizbullah
Christopher Hitchens got drunk over in Lebanon, decided to insult some pro-Syria Hizbullah thugs, and paid the price.