The Abyss
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” -Joseph Campbell
About once a year, I re-read what I think is one of the best short stories written in 20th century American Literature.
That’s a remarkably inflammatory thing for me to say these days, especially as the story is the product of a writer so out of fashion that he has been “cancelled” from numerous higher education reading lists. Of course, such lists these…