Status Updates From How to Read a Book

"You should understand that the limitations on the degree to which you can approximate the rule (pertaining to the suggested outlines) are not only ones of time and effort. You are a finite, mortal creature; but a book is also finite and, if not mortal, at least defective in the way all things made by man are. No book deserves a perfect outline because no book is perfect. It goes only so far, and so must you" (85).