"It has taken four thousand years of struggle to 'lift' man 'above' nature. In the course of that struggle language and thought and behavior in the West have lapsed into a too-simple framework of discontinuity and opposition: spirit and body, mind and matter, earth and heaven, man and nature, good and evil. It is not an insoluble dilemma, but it is far more dangerous than we permit ourselves to know."
Paul Shepard
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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