what to read before the Read?

[Mark Kohut]

My post simply meant: Think about the foundation of the US. Read the
founding documents if you haven't
and have time.

maybe fewer buried allusions in M & D than in other big books. .Would like
other Golden/Silver Agers to weigh in here.

So, don't worry what you haven't read. Read M & D maybe and then reread it
agin. There is no reading only rereading--Nabokov......
Check the wiki.

Franklin's autobiography and a bio.

Democracy in America.




On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Gene DA <genevievej.da at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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