The images of those whose lives were suddenly and unexpectedly altered in Boston are haunting. In The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder offers much wisdom. First this passage about how we squander our days: She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, a thirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.
Thoughts on Boston
Thoughts on Boston
Thoughts on Boston
The images of those whose lives were suddenly and unexpectedly altered in Boston are haunting. In The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder offers much wisdom. First this passage about how we squander our days: She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, a thirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.