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timthinks

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Alan Jacobs: Breaking Bread with the Dead (2020, Penguin Publishing Group) 4 stars

W. H. Auden once wrote that “art is our chief means of breaking bread with …

This isn’t that famous Mary Oliver formulation that starts with the autonomous and authoritative self — what will you do with your wild and precious life? In a gift economy, the self is first on the receiving end of abundance — gifts hidden, apparent, emerging, hard-sought. It takes practice and imagination and breaking bread with the dead to help young people see life as a gift. And then it takes more of the same, and more besides, to help them ask with that same spirit of abundance: How can I give my life away? From sarahendren.substack.com/p/unmuddling-the-university