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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Friday, October 09, 2009
Service on Trotsky
Robert Service has a new biography out. This time he takes on left-wing icon Leon Trotsky. Service exposes the deep malignancy of the man, his actions, and his ideas -- something that Western intellectuals in their enthusiasm for all things left have, for the most part, chosen to ignore. Check out John Gray's review here. Buy the book here.