A Gardening Piece at The University Bookman
My dad received The University Bookman while I was growing up, so I was especially pleased to see one of my pieces appear here today.
“The novel’s spirit is the spirit of complexity. The novelist says to the reader: things are not as simple as you think.” Milan Kundera It thereby is a rebuke to the left hemisphere and its preference for neat, predictable, and efficient abstraction. Reading is also frustratingly aimless and, to the left hemisphere's way of stilted thinking, a waste of time.