ANGELA LANSBURY once told how her daughter fell under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat who’d pick her up from school & get her to steal money & food from her parents. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland.
The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting of continents and the splitting of atoms. Out of it all, we emerged as creatures muzzled by a consciousness that demands we give meaning to our survival. It will not come like alms dropped from the unfeeling hand of the universe. It cannot be found ready-made in the great books and the great teachers, or bought at the price of an Ivy League tuition, or sold by Silicon Valley in… read article
