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After reading bout St Augustine i had to check him out next.

got to part two, i like the way these guys write about authors. Cool how theres like 2200 years of unbroken chinese recorded history. I bet they’ll win. I like how Volatire (like me) became a china guy to argue with stupid westeners- chad. Thoreau seemed to love these older guys. I would never become a stoic.

JSM says “it’s to everyone’s advantage to cast as wide a net as possible in harvesting the world’s cultural riches.” Cites Hutchens’ “original communications” as the primary selection criteria (books that “speak directly to us across gulfs of time and space”). “Consider that the authors of these original communications have… carried on a Great Communication with each other; we can listen in”