Marilynne Robinson’s introductory words to the essay, “Thinking Again”:
It will be a great day in the history of science if we sometime discover a damp shadow elsewhere in the universe where a fungus has sprouted. The mere fossil trace of life in its simplest form would be the crowning achievement of generations of brilliant and diligent labor.
If you feel like really stretching your mind, then you might try Marilynne Robinson’s book of essays, Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (The Terry Lectures Series)
