“These Fragments… Shored Against… Ruins” Anne Barbeau Gardiner   Tradition: Authority and Freedom by Robert Beum (Lincoln, NE: Sherwood Sugden, 2012)   Tradition is a collection of 1,420 quotations, ancient and modern, aptly chosen for our times by Robert Beum, who has taught in American and Canadian universities. These quotations, which may be savored little … Continue reading “These Fragments… Shored Against… Ruins”