Day 297: Doctor said I had to quit, so ...
Charles Lamb's physician said, no more smoking. So ... here we are. What is this excerpt? Well, when they grab me, I'll share from Half-Hours With the Best Authors! From the last volume backwards!
Amongst my reading from The University Library, The Pocket University and Best of the World’s Classics also may come, occasionally, readings from the sixth and final volume of Half-Hours With the Best Authors, “with short biographical and critical notes” collected by Charles Knight. This is a six-volume version of a two-volume version and is one of a number of sets Knight made, including others on foreign authors and American authors.
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A Pocket University, too? Yes, indeed.
Last year, I acquired a copy of The University Library, a set collected for a year’s entries of literature. I met a man at his house, and he handed over the box. I decided to try to read and write something every day from the set. I spent a lot of time reading and writing about entries in that set here on this Substack. I missed a lot of days, which giv…
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