American Scholar, January 1st, 1999
The anthropologist Loren Eiseley finished his memoir, All the Strange Hours, just prior to dying in 1977. The memoir touches on Eiseley's early childhood, but only briefly, and there is no mention of friends or lovers. The writing is excellent, and the reader learns to understand Eiseley as a depressed man who nonetheless worked. Man is himself, like the universe he inhabits ... a tale of desolations.... But out of such desolation emerges the awesome freedom to choose--to choose beyond the narrowly circumscribed circle that delimits the animal being. In that widening ring of human choice, cha...
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