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The City and the Limiting Virtues
"freedom to" and "freedom from" in the cafe, church, and library
I suggested students visit either this great cavernous space in the middle of the bustling university square or the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center nearby, with its beautifully pared-down top floor of a grand old Victorian house. I could also have suggested a visit to the nearby monks’ dwelling at the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, whose exquisite stone chapel often features a sandwich board out front, enticing passersby not with lunch deals or storewide discounts but that rarest (limiting) thing: silence. Harper, reviewing Molly Roden Winter’s More: A Memoir of an Open Marriage, finds its account of polyamory not a breathless liberation but an anguished slog of misery, led by endless choices.
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