This happened years after my nighttime adventure through field and forest. In all that time, I hadn’t lost what it gave me. It had lodged an ember in my chest, a living coal in a world of gray, which glowed with silent knowledge of an unsolved secret.
 
Works:
Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer,” Heart of Darkness
Sophocles, Philoctetes
Homer, Odyssey
Heraclitus, Fragments
William Faulkner, “The Bear”
Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy

This happened years after my nighttime adventure through field and forest. In all that time, I hadn’t lost what it gave me. It had lodged an ember in my chest, a living coal in a world of gray, which glowed with silent knowledge of an unsolved secret. Works: Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer,” Heart of Darkness Sophocles, Philoctetes Homer, Odyssey Heraclitus, Fragments William Faulkner, “The Bear” Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy

2: Island

Classicist Jim Abbot explores the nature and possibilities of hope — in an era of climate change, pandemic, and political dysfunction — through storytelling. Each episode of "Hope: A Fable" is a new story, featuring a protagonist on a lifelong search for hope, and all the people he meets along the way.

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