what to read before the Read?

[da kid]

Maybe brush up on UFO lore? Read some weekly world news or something like that.

A Tale of a Tub? Or the tale of the tub in the Golden Ass? I have not read either that or Jonathon Swift's but there is some kind of alluding or punning toing on there.

What does Cherrycoke say to study, celestial mathematics or something?

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Subject: Re: what to read before the Read?

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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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