A Trenchant Observation
For a couple weeks I’ve been reading Robert D. Richardson’s William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism. It’s a lengthy book, and I’ve been fairly busy these past few weeks, but I have no excuse: the book is taking me longer to finish than I had hoped.
I sometimes have the book with me at church. This morning one of my junior church students saw it and said, “You’re still reading that book?”
Point taken.
Posted 24 Aug. 2008 at 8:14 pm | Permalink
How’s the Will Durant reading coming?:-)
Posted 25 Aug. 2008 at 9:01 pm | Permalink
Point taken. :-)
I’m a good way through Our Oriental Heritage, but I got bogged down in all the nonsense about prehistory.
Posted 29 Aug. 2008 at 5:27 pm | Permalink
Just think how I feel when long-ago students ask, “Are you still teaching History of Civ?