In high school I used to skip class and hide out in the library stacks, pulling books at random to see what was inside. Black Nationalism, early childhood development, some biography or another…
I kept a journal and lost it. It was thrilling. I was thrilled to be learning and thrilled to have escaped my dreadful classes. I was full of wonder and the adrenaline of (on site) truancy. It all came rushing back when I came across this illustration. Beautiful.
“I do read for the fun of it, thank God”
Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, and editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper’s magazine.
(via theatlantic)
