I miss the wisdom of the old Canadian master, Robertson Davies, who wrote novels in trilogies. I think it was in the first volume of The Cornish Trilogy that he mentioned that the human mind doesn’t grow up as fast as we think. Dip into your psyche and you’ll find that something quite medieval, like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, will be lurking around in the shadows.

Edmund Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, another old book, argued that science didn’t effectively address our concerns on the level of so-called “real life”. Maybe we’ll always have to resort to religion

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