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A crystal drop of rain, a broken clock, a ball peen hammer
By Our ReadersApril 1982“Rely on yourself” and “Do not rely on yourself” alone are not conflicting ideas. One must rely on what he is, but what he is is not alone.
By Hugh PratherMarch 1982October 1981The necessary premise is that a man is somehow more than his “characteristics,” all the emotions, strivings, tastes and constructions which it pleases him to call “My Life.” We have ground to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.
Saul Bellow, Herzog
Feed the poor, a 30-foot sailboat, expensive coffee beans
By Our ReadersSeptember 1981They dragged him to a pit and cast him in and he was left there to watch dawn turn to dusk every day for 98 rounds of the earth’s turning, mentally circulating all possible excuses why nothing ever got done until finally all rationalization sickened him.
By Wayne PerrasAugust 1981You don’t set up an ideal of what you want to be and try to become it. You become aware of what you are, and in that very process you become or realize the ideal.
By Sy SafranskyJuly 1981Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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