April 2023
Beginner
608 pages
21h 24m
English
To John and Ted for their support, generosity and patience
To Christopher, Anna and Zak for loving their academic mothers despite the books
The Bright Field
I have seen the sun break throughto illuminate a small fieldfor a while, and gone my wayand forgotten it. But that was the pearlof great price, the one field that hadtreasure in it. I realize nowthat I must give all that I haveto possess it. Life is not hurryingon to a receding future, nor hankering afteran imagined past. It is the turningaside like Moses to the miracleof the lit bush, to a brightnessthat seemed as transitory as your youthonce, but is the eternity that awaits you.
R. S. Thomas
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