A few weeks ago I received, quite unexpectedly, a copy of C.S. Lewis’s Surprised my Joy from an old college friend. I couldn’t turn down such a direct invitation, so I’ve read it. Here’s a report.
Unimpressed by Joy
I’ve never been much of a Lewis fan; but, since I haven’t read very much […]
If Walden was Thoreau’s flight from the market economy, it was, equally, a flight from women, from domesticity, from family life. He walked to town, nearly every day, to dine with friends; his mother often cooked for him…. Above all, he cherished his manly self-sufficiency (even though he carried his dirty laundry to Concord for […]
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