what to read before the Read?

[Arthur Fuller]

Last thing I binged was Sons of Anarchy; I watched seven seasons in one
week, a season a day. I remember saying to a friend of mine, this is not a
biker story, this is Shakespeare on wheels, and I was proved correct in the
credits of the last episode, a quote from King Lear, the best play ever
penned.

I read a shocking stat last week, and it made me realize how little I know
and how uneducated I am. Last year, 180,000 books were publlished in
England alone. At 3 per week, and sometimes it's slower going, depending on
the depth. Let's calculate this; 3 per week time 52 weeks equals 156 books
per annum, which is a miniscule fraction of the books published in England,
let alone the USA, Canada, etc. In other words, I am just slightly better
than illiterate. I've read every word from Thomas Pynchon and William
Gaddis and a few others, including J.S. Mill, Jeremy Bentham and Werner
Heisenberg. But there remain the couple of hundred thousand books per year
that I have not read.

Arthur
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