what to read before the Read?

[Gene DA]

Having not yet read M&D, what other literature is alluded to? If there are
recurring ones or major ones, that would be helpful.

Also, I have read a number of the essential articles of Federalist Papers,
but there's a lot, any specific ones you suggest? Or are the key ones good
enough for a primer?

Any such suggestions are appreciated.

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:17 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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