“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.”
Daniel Mendelsohn“Taste is a mystery.”
Daniel Mendelsohn“Authority could derive from passion, not pieces of paper.”
Daniel Mendelsohn“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.”
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million