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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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Lies of the Left -- Falling Soldier
One of the most famous images to emerge from the Spanish Civil War was Robert Capa's "falling soldier". It purported to show a Spanish leftist being felled by a Falangist bullet and it became a powerful symbol of resistance to fascism, used for decades to promote sympathy for left-wing causes. But it was a fake.
George Will explains here.