Arthur put his finger directly on this when, during that walk on Saranac Avenue in Buffalo so long ago, he reminded me that the words of the greats we were studying at Columbia were far more than mere words. The libraries at Columbia, the Bodleian at Oxford, the Widener at Harvard, and the main New York Public Library on 42nd Street: these have all been for me an extension of the great wisdom underlying the Acropolis and the Temple Mount and Jabneh. How I love dropping the names of the great thinkers and innovators of history who made it possible for me to come back from that hospital bed in
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