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This is neat.Brian Kiteley: Barthelme had no set reading list that I can recall. He simply said, "Read all of Western philosophy, for starters, then read some history, anthropology, history of science." I've read a reaction that a Johns Hopkins class had to this command (which was similar to the one he made to us). A student there said, "But we have to eat and sleep." "Give up sleeping," Barthelme replied; "that's a good place to start."
And eating isn't much of an obstacle, anyway, because it's fairly simple to read while eating. (Unless you're eating your peas with a butter knife, of course, but you really shouldn't be doing that in the first place. Not least because it makes reading needlessly difficult.)
And eating isn't much of an obstacle, anyway, because it's fairly simple to read while eating. (Unless you're eating your peas with a butter knife, of course, but you really shouldn't be doing that in the first place. Not least because it makes reading needlessly difficult.)