The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistication of every sort---intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological---keeps the American character from awakening. The American character remains blind to the fact that the virtues of mediocrity---those pieties of disciplined energy, order, self-control, probity and faith---are themselves messengers of the devil they would overcome."
James Hillman
The Soul's Code
Stopping With Stoppard
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In a prior post, I announced my intention to read--and mostly to
re-read--as much of Tom Stoppard's work as I could. From late December
into early Apr...
1 week ago
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