what to read before the Read?

[Jochen Stremmel]

There is a wonderful book by Henry Miller about the books in his life where
he says something like: you shouldn't read more, you should read less.

2017-10-30 17:32 GMT+01:00 Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>:

> 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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