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Authors need to stop referencing other books because then I need to go read those too. If I had infinite reading time and patience I would go on a One Thousand and One Nights style quest where whenever another work is mentioned I stop and go read that before returning to the first book. Depending on the initial book it could take years.

“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him. . . . They sink lower—become interested in their own personalities and then in nothing but their own reputations.”

“It is nearer to such as you than ye think.” I should be reading more Lewis.