Member-only story
Learning The Secrets
*
At the time, Sherwood Anderson was living what many would have considered a successful, respectable life: a businessman in Elyria, Ohio, with a family and a steady career. Yet beneath this veneer of stability, there simmered an unrelenting creative restlessness.
Then came the pivotal moment — one day, Anderson simply walked out of his office, abandoning his work, his responsibilities, even his very identity. He was later found wandering the streets of Cleveland, disoriented and unable to recall his own name.
What followed was an audacious act of reinvention. Anderson turned his back on the business world, choosing instead to pursue writing — a decision that seemed reckless to those around him but was, in reality, an act of fierce self-liberation. This moment of collapse and awakening became the catalyst for the deeply human and painfully honest stories…
From ‘History of Literature’
*
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible the price.
— Aldous Huxley
*
To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.
— John Berger
