To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning to life and that there are limits to human understanding. So we lay down a heavy burden and are made humble. This is what Shakespearian tragedy accomplishes for us.
-Peter Ackroyd, Shakespeare: The Biography
Recently, less than humble, Lauren began to measure success by money, fame and power. The regular working world has built-in measures for success, however minor: regular paychecks, annual job reviews, thanks and kudos from supervisors and co-workers, etc. Writers have little of this. We work alone, and nobody ever says, Hey, six pages, great job today. Somehow writer’s relationship with his work is like a secret love affair, to be cherished and hidden from materialistic eyes ;-) The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken ... Taking a hard look at my life
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Let There Be Light
Some know it as the diabolical secret organization of monk-assassins depicted in the The Da Vinci Code.
Others recall it in vague connection with Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who spied for Russia. Those inside the beltway may be familiar with the role it played in the conversion to Catholicism of Sen. Sam Brownback, Robert Bork, and syndicated columnist Robert Novak—though apparently none of them numbers himself among the roughly 3,000 members the group claims to have in the United States. (Nor, despite rumors, do Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former FBI director Louis Freeh, or Sen. Rick Santorum.)
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