Gyrans gyrando

Essay for June

It’s taken me a few slow and turtling months to finish Evelyn Underhill’s astonishing Mysticism (1911), which is the second book, after Simone Weil’s, to make me toss up my hands and wonder why I ever bothered to write Break, Blow, Burn, & Make. More notably, given its publication date and popularity, Underhill could theoretically have made Weil toss up…