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
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...
3 weeks ago
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