I expected to read a sweet story of her life since the book says "when I was a child…." but no. These were essays that I tried to so hard to make sense out of. It wasn't easy read. On page 6, she says, for instance, that William Tyndale created one of the undoubted masterpieces of the English lan...
Robinson's most heady material to date, Absence of Mind fashions an argument exposing the "parascience" of the new atheists, tracing its historical roots in the positivist movement of Auguste Comte, and carving out a space to speak of the significant unknowns in our conception of human beings. As...
My 4 year old son is going to die...sometime in the future, like me--wishfully long after me--and we'll have no more time to talk. We should hopefully grow old together, but we'll grow old together as men. Yes, we'll always be father and son, but for the most part when we talk and share, he wil...
“I hope sometime you’ll feel—a little more at home, Lila. I hope sometime you’ll move things around a little in here. These old pictures my mother put up—I probably haven’t looked at some of them in fifty years. Most of them she just cut out of magazines. Well, you can see that, the way they’ve f...
YES!” HER FATHER SAID, AND her heart sank. He attempted a twinkle of joy at this thought, but his eyes were damp with commiseration. “To stay for a while this time!” he amended, and took her bag from her, first shifting his cane to his weaker hand. Dear God, she thought, dear God in heaven. So be...
I have no idea what sort of life he has had since he left here. There has never been any mention of marriage or children or of any particular kind of work. I always felt it was best not to inquire. I was sitting there listening to old Boughton ramble along (he uses the exp...