released 12/10/2021
In her book Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, Zena Hitz offers some rich reflections on the remarkable feature of human life that is the love of learning. In today’s Feature, listeners are treated to excerpts from Hitz’s conversation with Ken Myers (from Volume 152) in which they reflect on the origins of the word “learn” and the tradition of depicting the Virgin Mary as a bookish young woman.
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