The Greatest Obstacle To Pleasure Is Not

Writing Is A Performance, Like Singing An Aria Or Dancing A Jig

In High School I Read [lev] Tolstoy's "anna Karenina" And Loved It. Then I Read [friedrich] Nietzsche's "on The Genealogy Of Morals" And That Hit Me Hard. I Don't Know Where I Got It. My Parents Warned Me Not To Mention Either Of Those Books When I Went For My College Interviews So I Wouldn't Seem Like An Egghead. They Told Me To Talk About Sports.

There's A Huge Amount Of Work On Adam And Eve, From The Ancient World To The Present. Saint Augustine Was Obsessed With Them.i Don't Know If It Helps My Research, But I Get A Big Kick Out Of Mark Twain, Who Wrote "the Diaries Of Adam And Eve." He Wrote Very Funny Stuff On Them. I Sometimes Read Things That Are Loosely Related To What I'm Thinking And Writing About.

First Of All, Shakespeare Is About Pleasure And Interest. He Was From The First Moment He Actually Wrote Something For The Stage, And He Remains So.

[people In 1600s] Didn't Have Many Books. They Would Have Been Staggered By The Personal Libraries We Have Today, Because Books Back Then Were Incredibly Expensive.