How many scholars today are concerned with ultimate questions--the great puzzle of existence? Crawling around in the ant farm of academia, so many of us are forced to spend so much of our time on such narrow topics that we forget the mystery of the world that originally attracted us, like some invisible magnet, to the byzantine maze of knowledge. And in those moments in which we do manage, despite ourselves, to express a sense of wonder in writing, our colleagues bring us up short with sobering criticism, like a sharp slap on the face to an idle daydreamer
Greg Urban
















