what to read before the Read?

[David Elliott]

Does anyone recommend "The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon: Eighteenth-Century Contexts, Postmodern Observations" by Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds? 
https://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Worlds-Pynchons-Mason-Dixon/dp/1571134115/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1571134115&pd_rd_r=8WMZXJVG021F3J6HWFYK&pd_rd_w=jcIm9&pd_rd_wg=tEyb8&psc=1&refRID=8WMZXJVG021F3J6HWFYK

 

    On Monday, October 30, 2017 1:18 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 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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