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Christopher (Donut)
is 77% done
I'm beginning to regret trying to rush this. Hazlitt is a good writer, but very prolix. He is constantly saying the same thing three or four times.
AND I conscientiously went back and read the first five essays, which I had no notes on.
Reading for pleasure should never seem like a chore. 77 percent of a 400 pp. book means 75 pages to go.
— Feb 19, 2017 11:35AM
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AND I conscientiously went back and read the first five essays, which I had no notes on.
Reading for pleasure should never seem like a chore. 77 percent of a 400 pp. book means 75 pages to go.
Christopher (Donut)
is 62% done
Finished essay IV of volume two: "On Coffee-house politicians."
"... The Evening Paper is impatiently expected and called for at a certain critical minute: the news of the morning becomes stale and vapid by the dinner-hour. A fresher interest is required, an appetite for the latest-stirring information is excited."
— Feb 09, 2017 10:33AM
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"... The Evening Paper is impatiently expected and called for at a certain critical minute: the news of the morning becomes stale and vapid by the dinner-hour. A fresher interest is required, an appetite for the latest-stirring information is excited."
