"...those few moments, getting rarer all the time by all accounts, when one is first exposed to impossibly high standards, to books that are our judges and not the other way around, that excitement of learning not yet canceled out by careerist fears---that brief time in youth when you read in a pure state, not because you are innocent, but because you are watching yourself get smarter."
Charles Newman
Starting With Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard died in November 2025. From his first success in the late
1960s--*Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead-*- to now, I followed his
career and...
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