What Is Biography For?
In “Transcendence for Beginners,” the philosopher Clare Carlisle suggests that any life, even an ordinary one, is a portal to divinity.
Kieran Setiya, November 10, 202, New Yorker.
The Drawing Center Exhibition Archive. 50 years.
“There are no incidents in history, or
romance, more thrilling than the sufferings, perils and hair
breadth escapes of American slaves. No Puritan pilgrim, or
hero of ’76 has manifested more courage and perseverance in
the cause of freedom, than has been evinced, in thousands of
instances, by this persecuted race. In future ages popular
ballads will be sung to commemorate their heroic
achievements, and children more enlightened than ours will
marvel at the tyranny of their white ancestors.”Marion Wilson Starling, The Slave Narrative; Its Place in
American History (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1981) 248.
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