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A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham
A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham.
“It is the joint venture entered into by writer and reader,” Lewis reminds us, “that produces the freedoms of mind from which a society gathers its common stores of energy and hope.” Back in 2018, on this quarterly’s tenth anniversary, I put together a collage essay, “ Midwinter Hotel,” made up of sentences extracted from Voices in Time readings. 13 Atoms wandering in the abyss, then in the womb for the nine months during which a human embryo ascends through a sequence touching on over 3 billion years of evolutionary change, up from the shore of a prehistoric sea, traveling as amphibian, fish, bird, reptile, lettuce leaf, and mammal to a room with a view of the Queensboro Bridge. Blessed by what I took to be the smile and gift of fortune, I resolved to spend as much time as possible in the present tense, to rejoice in the wonders of the world, chase the rainbows of the spirit, indulge the pleasures of the flesh, defy the foul fiend, go and catch a falling star.
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