Author Joan Didion’s own arc dipped beneath its horizon not long ago and I have found myself re-reading her collection of essays titled “Slouching Toward Bethlehem.”ĭidion explored the tendency in American life of people to emulate films in the conduct of their lives, illustrating perhaps a fundamental shallowness, arguably a characteristic of the culture. I am a retired person and perhaps because the arc of my life bends toward its horizon, I find myself occupying my time by reading widely hoping to understand such confounding questions of my time.Ĭlues appear in unexpected places. 6 insurrection, new allegations of attempts to overturn the 2020 election by then-President Trump and his followers we are still, it has become clear, living in the ominous shadow of the Trump presidency and the appeal of this man to many continues to puzzle us. As I write this, amid new revelations regarding the Jan.
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