That Made a Difference Welcome to our editorial column featuring books or libraries that made a difference in the lives of our faculty.
Books are a sanctuary for the soul, if one dares to be open to their suggestions.
At first I was tempted to tell you that Archibald MacLeish s play JB , based on the equally transformative Book of Job, altered my life. This script was but a step in my liberation from a comfortable child s world. Moby Dick was also my first shattering transport around the world. It is only by reading that we are truly free to escape from the prejudices that we are raised with, and no other work has so demonstrated that to me more than Octavio Paz s The Labyrinth of Solitude , for both its beauty and its profound revelations of the human soul struggling to make sense of fractured modernity. Written in Spanish by Mexico s great intellectual in the 1950s and 1960s, this work defies simple classification.