Center. He experience a talented writer. Gregs project is ambitious. As he spent a quarter of a century reconstructing the life and times of 10 airmen aboard the between four liberator which disappeared over austria on october 1. As we will hear, he has a personal connection to this story and he has traced the lives of the fallen servicemen, situated them within a larger andy of combat in europe has reflected on his own personal journeys to the village in southern austria where the man disappeared. Willis the research we hear about today and it will inform his forthcoming book on the subject. Greg jones has been a Foreign Correspondent and investigative journalist for more than 30 years. He is the author of honor in the dust. Received stand, which a marine corps green junior award and red revolution which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Foras been a staff writer the los angeles times, dallas morning news, and the atlantic journal and constitution. He is covered the philippines a
Papers. That is because a title announces what is at stake for a lease hopefully announces what is at stake. I hope as nature as a saint, is that kind of title. You may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it is a walt emerson quote. Someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. Though nature as we know it is drawn rum Ralph Waldo Emersons essay called experience in 1884. He is trying to say what would our lives we like. How would we make sense of ourselves. How would we make sense of our world world. That is to say, we did not have our inherited elysian telling us how to make sense of our religion. We didnt have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. What would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the indication of what and right of what right and wrong is. And then he goes on to show us why that is so hard to do. Yes, experience is a