The Grandstand and the Arena
Where do you live?
In my twenties, I knew a woman who said to me, “You live in the grandstand rather than the arena of life.” We were in graduate school at Columbia. We were standing in the living room of the man who taught our seminar. She and the man were friends, and after finishing her degree this woman would leave the US to live in Oxford. She had a…
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