Posts Tagged ‘Diane Ackerman’

When You Get Around to Organizing the Dinner Party of the Ages, I’d Like to be Seated between Mr. Shakespeare and Mr. Jesus, If You Don’t Mind

I seek to break the news gently but if there is someone in my seminars of a somewhat fundamentalist Christian streak, it is invariably disconcerting when it gets revealed that the two brains that intrigue me most in history are those of Shakespeare and Jesus Christ, in that order.
Neither choice is by any means unique, [...]