Today is the day Robert Lax died 23 years ago. It’s hard to believe he’s been gone that long. Here’s a brief quote from him (from my biography of him), in memoriam:
what a writer writes should have some relation (though not necessrily a discoverable relation) to the meaning of his life.
and the meaning of our lives should have some relation (to the meaning of the life of the world)
but the meaning of our lives, and what we write, and what we do, is somehow in us from the beginning: in this sense, the child’s only duty is to live and grow