"carry into your everyday encounters an awareness that empathic understanding makes sense."

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On Tuesday I finished reading Phillip Roth's 1977 novel "The Professor of Desire," which I enjoyed though I reject the protagonist's belief that desire on the one hand, and love and happiness on the other, are mutually exclusive. I find it interesting that the book is dedicated to Claire Bloom (Roth's partner and later wife) and at the end of the ( Read more... )