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.
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Monday, September 07, 2009
What Else Don't They Thing We Should Know?
In the wake of the Van Jones resignation Mickey Kaus points out that New York Times readers still don't know what's going on [here]. And Instapundit wonders just what other major stories are the MSM missing or sitting on [here].