Friends, I encourage you to make a pilgrimage to the Omphalos before it’s gone. Gaze deeply into the metaphorical navel—you’ll find plenty of introspection in your four years here and beyond.

“‘Omphalos’ is connected to Harvard in ways people would never know.” Still, Grieder said that most people walking through the Square tend not to appreciate the piece, or even to give it a ...

Reading Omphalos Most of the stories in Exhalation have been pieces of deep imagination, filled with worlds that, while tethered to our experience on Earth, remain quite distant to it.