Notes Towards an Applied Literature
Literature is calling you to put down your phone; ignore the culture wars; block out the secondhand musings of newspaper philosophers. Turn to the great works of civilisation. See that your life is a quest for meaning. Become as ambitious as the poets whose work outlived empires.
Henry Oliversubstack.comIn this effort, the literary classics will ultimately be firmer and more useful guides than any social science methodology for those who have not had a personal experience with war and death. - Robert Kaplan
Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection.