"The debate the two men [Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem] conducted...ultimately concerned nothing less than the question of how to create the most profound life work possible - how to avoid misspending one's time on earth. Do we mine down as deep as we can go into the shaft of our own personal origins? Or do we strive to disseminate our energies and insights as broadly as possible across the panorama of human production?"
George Prochnik
Stranger in a Strange Land
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