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Maurice Poteet
Un Homme Grand, 07/1990Book Chapter
Much can be said for reading fast, for skimming books for their spotty wisdom. It is said that Napoleon, in his St. Helena days, read so fast that a servant was kept busy daily carting volumes to and fro. The historian Macaulay’s speed was such that friends suspected that he had x-ray vision. On the other hand, much can also be said for reading slowly, as was Lawrence Sterne’s approach. The mind, he said, should have time to make “wise reflections” and even “draw curious conclusions.”¹ What follows is the resuit of the latter method. To begin, let us examine
