UNWRITTEN RULES
George steiner explores the book projects he abandoned
Nick Tosches
My Unwritten Books
by George Steiner
New Directions
$23.95 List Price
This guy never ceases to amaze me. Here he is, pushing eighty, and instead of dimming the lights and shuffling off to somber senescence, he’s upping the ante and teaching new dance steps.
T. S. Eliot said that the job of poets and saints is “to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time.” This job description can be applied as well to the work undertaken by the last of the great philologists, Ernst
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