“There’s no such thing as rabbit trails,” one of my English professors recently said at a department end-of-semester party. Such a phrase, at the time used casually and likely without any connection to metaphysics or more complicated imaginings, nevertheless hit me at the moment hard enough that I jotted down a record of it on…
Month: July 2021
Thou Mayest
Last summer, I read John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and found it to be a intriguing book. Since then, the words timshel and “thou mayest” have been ringing in my head from time to time. Timshel is a Hebrew word that has”thou mayest” as a translation of it. If you have read East of Eden,…