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James Polchin

James Polchin: The Actor and the Academic

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

Lecturing in his blindness, the aged Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges contemplated the nature of immortality quoting Thomas Aquinas: “Intellectus naturaliter desiderat esse semper,” the mind naturally desires to exist forever. To this Borges asked, “But in what ways does it desire it?” Obscurity is a tragedy in our times for it denies the possibility […]

Filed Under: Contributors 67, Issue 66, Prose, Prose 67 Tagged With: Contributors 67, James Polchin, Prose, Prose 67

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