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The Consolations of Reading In a quote I don't seem to have read from Augustine of Hippo but saw at CNN, the formidable, complexified saint says "The world is like a book and those those who do not travel read only one page." For a peripatetic guy, he's true to his word. Let us invert the passage and say that reading a book is like a travel to lands unknown, sometimes through boat, sometimes thru the air, sometimes to neither here nor there. I would hesitate to call the posts here "reviews" because many of these books are rather old. Rather, they allow me to look back and think about my responses to these works which I never wrote down in the past. They reveal my own thoughts and in many cases, my own ignorance. |
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Old copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (image from NYPL Digital Library) |
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The Varieties of Early Christian Experience A History of the 20th Century Intellect Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis Le ton beau de marot: In Praise of the Music of Language More to come.... |
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