glimpse where the inexplicable lies in each author, that death is the end, that there is no answer to evil, that nothing will ever be resolved, that it is as good to know where you’re going as it is good to have no idea where you’re going. Maybe what matters is simple—that we don’t institutionalize the urge to write spiritually as anything other than making the most of that urge.
NOTES
1. D. H. Lawrence, “The Spinner and the Monks,” chap. 2 in Twilight in Italy (1916), in D. H. Lawrence and Italy (New York: Penguin Books, 1972). Essay runners-up from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries include “Spiritual Laws” and “The Oversoul,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson; “The Wind at Djemila” and “Death in the Soul,” by Albert Camus; “The Inner Galaxy” and “The Hidden Teacher,” by Loren Eiseley; “Fire Watch, July 4, 1952” and “Day of a Stranger,” by Thomas Merton; “The Surgeon as Priest” and “The Exact Location of the Soul,” by Richard Selzer; “Let It Go” and “god,” by Brian Doyle; “Winter Garden” and “On Intla: Snow That Has Drifted Indoors,” by Kathryn Winograd; “Fire Season” and “The Return,” by Rick Bass; “God in the Doorway” and “Singing with the Fundamentalists,” by Annie Dillard.
2. Langston Hughes, “Salvation,” in The Big Sea (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993).
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