John Schuster talks of ‘The Bridge of Love’ at OPL | Madison County Courier-Madison County News
By Tom Murray
(Oneida, NY) John Schuster, philosophy instructor and librarian at Morrisville State College, will visit the Oneida Public Library on Thursday March 11 at 7 p.m. to give an address on Thornton Wilder’s prize-winning novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” the subject of greater Oneida’s Big Read in March sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In his talk, titled “The Bridge of Love,” Schuster will explore the novel philosophically to discover the big questions of life and love, death and fate. He takes his lead from the novel’s closing line quoted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to eulogize the victims at the World Trade Center on September 11: “There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
John Schuster talks of ‘The Bridge of Love’ at OPL | Madison County Courier-Madison County News
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