The Art of Manliness - #197： On the Joys and Travails of Thinking

00:00:00.000 Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

00:00:18.720 What does it mean to live a life of the mind?

00:00:22.000 Why is it important that we make time in our life to ponder and contemplate the heftier

00:00:26.300 ideas of what it means to be a human?

00:00:28.180 And if that's our desire, how do we go about doing it?

00:00:31.900 Well, my guest today has spent his life pondering and teaching about this very subject.

00:00:35.220 His name is Father James Shaw.

00:00:36.680 He's a Jesuit priest and philosopher and is the professor of political philosophy at the

00:00:41.520 government department at Georgetown University.

00:00:44.040 And Father Shaw has written on a wide variety of topics.

00:00:46.500 But today on the show, we discuss his book, The Life of the Mind, on the joys and travails

00:00:50.760 of thinking, where he elucidates on ways of approaching thinking so that it delights and

00:00:55.980 edifies us and in turn allows us to edify others.

00:00:59.860 Today on the show, Father Shaw and I discuss what it means to take part in the great conversation

00:01:05.420 of life, why the life of the mind has some drudgery work in it, and how the intellectual

00:01:10.660 life can be risky sometimes.

00:01:12.920 We also get into some brass tacks suggestions on how to better live a contemplative life,

00:01:18.300 some great insights and wisdom from a man who's thought a lot about thinking.

00:01:21.880 And just a heads up about this episode, due to the father's hearing problems, I sent him

00:01:25.980 the questions via email in advance, and he kindly recorded them and his answers and sent

00:01:29.880 them back to me.

00:01:30.860 We've done our best to edit it to give the episode our usual flow.

00:01:34.020 But if things don't sound like your typical episode, you know why that is.

00:01:38.980 And when you're done listening, be sure to check out the show notes when you're done for links

00:01:42.840 to resources we mentioned.

00:01:43.980 You can find that at aom.is slash shawl.

00:01:55.480 Father Shaw, can you tell us a little bit about your background?

00:01:57.900 Why did you decide to become a Jesuit priest after serving in the Army?

00:02:01.620 And what have you spent your career and life studying, pondering, and teaching about?

00:02:06.840 The beginning of all great adventures, Chesterton said, is just being born into this world.

00:02:15.900 Much, I am sure, to my parents' surprise, I arrived about a year after their marriage in 1927

00:02:27.660 in Pocahontas, Iowa, a small farm town in northwest Iowa.

00:02:34.020 My Bohemian mother had 13 brothers and sisters, and my German-Irish father had seven.

00:02:46.440 I was blessed with about 65 cousins, plus a sister and two brothers.

00:02:54.220 The best thing that your parents do for you is to give you brothers and sisters.

00:03:01.340 My mother, Grace, died in 1937, whereupon my paternal grandmother took over and took care

00:03:11.340 of my sister, brothers, and myself.

00:03:15.600 This enabled our father to keep us together.

00:03:19.780 My father later remarried a widow with two daughters, my own age, while we were living in

00:03:26.720 Knoxville, Iowa, down south of Des Moines.

00:03:30.080 After the three of us, myself and two stepsisters, graduated from high school, our parents, in

00:03:40.560 the summer that World War II ended, moved to San Jose, California.

00:03:45.680 I entered the University of Santa Clara that fall, but after a semester joined the Army for 18 months,

00:03:55.520 after which I returned to Santa Clara for a year, and then I entered the Society of Jesus

00:04:02.320 at Los Gatos in 1984.

00:04:05.560 About the question of why someone becomes a Jesuit, myself included, I can only remark that it is

00:04:15.100 roughly the same question that your brother, Harry, is asked.

00:04:21.120 Namely, tell me, why did you marry Susan and not someone else?

00:04:25.780 There is a mystery attached to all vocations, including marriage.

00:04:32.240 This fact usually strikes home to a young couple when they first take a look, take a good look

00:04:42.420 at their new baby and keep looking at him over the years.

00:04:48.740 When you enter a religious order, it usually has a general plan of studies and preparation

00:04:58.880 for the priesthood, a broad plan in the case of the Jesuits in my time.

00:05:05.180 It lasted about 15 years.

00:05:07.540 It was really an opportunity to spend time on things that you otherwise would never have known

00:05:15.360 or much thought about.

00:05:18.120 I do not think that everyone should join a monastery.

00:05:22.360 Far from it.

00:05:23.260 But I do suspect that it takes most married couples about the same amount of time

00:05:30.180 to have a clear eye on why they are together.

00:05:35.660 I think it is in Plato, as most things are.

00:05:39.720 At a party at my brother's a number of years ago, someone asked me how long

00:05:45.080 I had been in studies.

00:05:47.720 I responded the usual 15 years.

00:05:51.120 On this, mind you, after I was 20 years old and my brother, no respecter of an elder brother's

00:05:58.380 prerogative, broke into the conversation to remark, yes, and if he had had any brains,

00:06:07.060 he would have graduated a long time ago.

00:06:09.840 So all that I can say is that once I started, I never looked back.

00:06:16.900 Somehow, for reasons that I could by no means calculate, it seems that I was doing what

00:06:24.380 I ought to be doing without worrying too much about it.

00:06:28.640 And to this position, I eventually add Chesterton's famous quip that if a thing is worth doing,

00:06:40.000 it's worth doing badly.

00:06:42.200 Things are worth doing well also, of course.

00:06:46.200 But I never had any doubts that among the sinful and finite creatures that God somehow put in

00:06:55.100 this world, I was right at home.

00:06:57.700 So you've written extensively about lifelong learning, and not in the sense of learning

00:07:02.620 new practical skills so much, though there is a place for that, but learning and pondering

00:07:07.680 upon the great ideas of humanity.

00:07:09.780 But it seems many people in our society either don't want to do that or simply have never

00:07:15.160 thought about joining the great conversation.

00:07:17.940 Why do you think that is?

00:07:19.320 And is it that the contemplative life is hard, or is it something else?

00:07:23.400 Ignatius of Loyola was famous for citing the passage,

00:07:30.200 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, only to lose his immortal soul?

00:07:37.400 This passage has become more obscure today when the culture often seems to advise that the

00:07:47.800 only way that one can save his souls or to do anything important is to change the world

00:07:59.360 outside of ourselves.

00:08:00.740 That latter view is rather Marxist in flavor, a placing of practice over thought.

00:08:10.660 Before we go out and do something, we ought to know how to do it, and even more importantly,

00:08:20.020 whether it is important or right to do it.

00:08:25.820 We should also know something about what the world is about and our place in it.

00:08:33.820 Learning and pondering the great ideas of humanity, as you put it, are not just pastimes or curiosities.

00:08:45.920 The famous political philosopher Leo Strauss often remarked that the trouble with great ideas

00:08:54.780 and great books is that they contradict each other, and thus it is easy for us to end up skeptics

00:09:02.940 if we are not convinced that the purpose of thought and action has to do with truth,

00:09:10.940 both finding it and living it.

00:09:13.320 Philosophy is not just reading or thinking about philosophers.

00:09:24.180 The contempt of life is hard in the same sense that playing golf is hard.

00:09:32.560 That is, unless you learn how to play the game pretty well, you will always be a duffer.

00:09:41.780 However, we do not all have to win the Masters in Atlanta to play golf,

00:09:49.360 but some things need to be learned to be fully enjoyed.

00:09:54.880 Thinking is one of them, is one of these things.

00:09:58.480 And yet, I am Aristotelian enough to recognize that everyone has a mind,

00:10:06.020 and often the formerly learned can end up with silly ideas that any fool can recognize to be silly,

00:10:16.200 or that some famous scholar may be morally dissolute in spite of his learning.

00:10:23.980 But basically, thinking is a lifelong thing.

00:10:28.840 We usually get better at it by recognizing our mistakes and errors.

00:10:34.200 To go back to golf, it and tennis are two sports that it is well to learn while we are young,

00:10:46.360 as unlike football or basketball, they can be played all of our lives,

00:10:52.880 something the existence of Florida proves, I think.

00:10:56.620 There will never be a time when thinking and thinking the truth are not important to us.

00:11:05.360 The subtitle of my book, The Classical Mind, is,

00:11:11.040 quote, on knowledge and its pleasures, end of quote.

00:11:14.540 So how do you bootstrap yourself out of that initial drudgery that you talk about

00:11:31.660 that occurs when you're first setting out on the life of the mind?

00:11:35.200 Is it simply approaching intellectual life like you would with a training regimen for your body?

00:11:39.620 The comparison between training for the mind and for the body is apt.

00:11:46.260 The Greeks used it.

00:11:48.100 St. Paul used it.

00:11:50.420 The brutal fact that if you refuse to put yourself into shape, mental and physical,

00:12:00.740 there will be things you simply cannot do that you might otherwise like to do and be able to do.

00:12:09.620 The world is filled with people with more will and discipline

00:12:16.720 who learn and accomplish more because they endured the difficulties of learning or of training.

00:12:28.260 Talent can take us part of the way, but by itself, it is not enough.

00:12:36.120 Incidentally, I had never heard the word bootstrap used as a verb before,

00:12:43.220 but the meaning is clear.

00:12:45.980 There is an initial drudge, as you put it.

00:12:50.920 Any good coach of any sport will be able to tell you many stories

00:12:57.900 of the difficulty to incite the players to train properly.

00:13:03.900 I also think of the stories of violinists or piano players who were made to practice

00:13:12.860 for hours and hours all through their youth,

00:13:16.760 which practice turned out to be the foundation of their ability to play almost effortlessly.

00:13:26.500 Drudgery is connected with most good things.

00:13:31.860 I do not think we ever avoid it.

00:13:36.820 If you look at the number of hours and shots Stephen Curry of the Warriors takes,

00:13:45.580 even when he is in top form,

00:13:49.240 you realize that at some point you have to want to do the necessary preparatory work.

00:13:58.040 The world is filled with young and old men and women

00:14:02.700 who took piano or ballet in their youth,

00:14:08.800 but dropped it and never did much with the instrument or the dance again.

00:14:18.000 Hopefully, they did the work to learn something.

00:14:22.320 They learned to do the work to do something else worth doing.

00:14:28.780 What I want to say, I suppose, is that there is no magic formula

00:14:34.140 which will enable you to bypass the training

00:14:38.400 or replace the desire with some gimmick that will do it for you.

00:14:47.300 You must not bypass the logic course when you can take it.

00:14:55.340 If you think about it, this patient working away at something

00:15:01.660 is what it means to be a human being.

00:15:05.300 There are many things we can become,

00:15:12.080 but we can arrive at none of them

00:15:15.520 without wanting to do what is necessary

00:15:19.440 and, yes, enjoying it once we have figured it out.

00:15:25.320 This is true of being a good farmer

00:15:28.560 as it is of being a good quarterback.

00:15:31.780 And, again, some things, many things, are worth doing

00:15:38.200 even if we are not the best in the world in doing them.

00:15:45.080 A mother, Chesterton said, is a specialist in...

00:15:50.780 She's not a specialist in anything,

00:15:57.460 but sort of a practitioner or a specialist in everything else.

00:16:03.920 And she does not usually have to be the first in what she does

00:16:08.800 in the particular things.

00:16:11.280 She is the seventh best cook

00:16:14.620 I'm the twelfth best sower

00:16:16.860 and the fortieth best algebra teacher,

00:16:20.540 all of which, and all the variety of which,

00:16:23.820 means that she must know something of everything.

00:16:26.880 So when does the drudgery turn into a,

00:16:29.420 what you call a lightness of thinking?

00:16:31.540 How do we create a contemplative life

00:16:33.480 in the busyness of our lives?

00:16:35.080 I do not think drudgery ever turns into anything else

00:16:40.340 but what it is.

00:16:43.240 What happens, rather, is that you begin to know

00:16:46.420 how to do things well, or better, at least.

00:16:50.540 You begin to see the truth of things

00:16:54.580 with the help of others.

00:16:57.240 Moreover, one should not think

00:16:59.900 that we ever become something other than we are

00:17:04.080 finite human beings.

00:17:08.000 Even to want to be something else,

00:17:10.480 like the gods,

00:17:12.180 is not what we really want.

00:17:15.960 As Aristotle implied,

00:17:17.840 no one really wants to be someone else.

00:17:21.960 Even to think that is a good idea,

00:17:25.960 that that is a good idea is an act of pride

00:17:29.000 in the worst sense.

00:17:32.460 As to the second part of your question

00:17:34.680 about creating a contemplative life

00:17:37.060 in the midst of the business of our own lives,

00:17:41.220 I think the best thing to do here

00:17:43.840 is to recommend a famous book

00:17:46.980 written back in the 1920s

00:17:49.600 by the French-Dominican A.D. Sertéange.

00:17:54.240 It is called The Intellectual Life.

00:17:56.920 It has gone through many editions

00:18:00.100 in many languages.

00:18:02.600 Though written before the computer

00:18:04.480 or even the typewriter,

00:18:07.020 it remains a first-class guide,

00:18:09.760 a first-class guidebook

00:18:11.380 about organizing our day

00:18:15.780 with some sense of learning

00:18:18.260 and completion in mind

00:18:20.900 and contemplation.

00:18:22.320 One of the things I like about this book

00:18:27.220 is that it recognizes

00:18:29.420 that most people,

00:18:31.920 most of the time,

00:18:33.660 have to make a living.

00:18:35.720 They have many duties and distractions.

00:18:39.340 They're business

00:18:40.000 plus urgent things of everyday life.

00:18:45.640 Sertéange recommends

00:18:46.940 setting aside habitually

00:18:49.160 a certain amount of time each day

00:18:52.360 for reading or writing.

00:18:55.360 How this fits in with

00:18:56.780 The Computer Society,

00:18:59.160 I will leave to your judgment.

00:19:01.860 Another book with a similar approach

00:19:03.860 is the Western writer

00:19:06.080 Louis L'Amour.

00:19:08.340 His book called

00:19:09.240 The Education of a Wondering Man.

00:19:11.840 This book is a record

00:19:13.680 of how L'Amour

00:19:15.220 read his way

00:19:16.740 to an education

00:19:18.060 in American Western lore

00:19:19.980 by using his time well.

00:19:24.760 The key points

00:19:25.720 were to want to know

00:19:28.220 and to discipline oneself

00:19:30.060 to make the time.

00:19:33.140 L'Amour listed

00:19:34.360 at the end of each year

00:19:36.360 every book

00:19:37.460 that he had read that year.

00:19:39.960 I like this idea

00:19:41.200 and I would include

00:19:44.940 with it

00:19:45.360 significant essays

00:19:46.900 or other things

00:19:47.600 that I have read.

00:19:48.260 So why is studying

00:19:49.740 the liberal arts

00:19:51.060 so important

00:19:52.200 to a flourishing life

00:19:53.340 and why should people

00:19:54.700 continue to study them

00:19:55.580 after they're done

00:19:56.980 with the formal education?

00:19:58.400 The word

00:19:58.860 liberal

00:20:00.300 in liberal arts

00:20:01.620 is opposed to the term

00:20:03.780 servile arts.

00:20:05.940 The kind of things

00:20:07.220 that must be done

00:20:08.720 just to keep alive.

00:20:11.200 This point also

00:20:12.180 touches the famous

00:20:13.780 discussion

00:20:14.600 that Joseph Pieper

00:20:16.360 brought us

00:20:17.920 in his famous

00:20:19.060 little essay

00:20:19.840 Leisure

00:20:20.320 The Basis of Culture

00:20:22.100 a book

00:20:23.340 not to be missed.

00:20:25.540 Just reading it

00:20:26.600 is itself

00:20:28.120 a liberal education.

00:20:31.040 Liberal means

00:20:32.360 to be free

00:20:33.640 but free of what?

00:20:36.880 It means

00:20:37.360 being able

00:20:38.060 to rule oneself

00:20:39.340 as such

00:20:41.620 to rule

00:20:42.100 to guide oneself

00:20:43.000 to be in command

00:20:44.520 of oneself.

00:20:46.220 It means

00:20:47.060 to have acquired

00:20:49.320 the virtues

00:20:50.080 in other words

00:20:51.480 so that

00:20:52.560 our emotions

00:20:53.800 and wants

00:20:54.780 do not

00:20:56.080 overwhelm us

00:20:57.080 and take us

00:20:58.140 in a direction

00:20:59.400 that is not

00:21:00.120 worthy

00:21:00.440 of us.

00:21:02.460 It is built

00:21:03.400 on the idea

00:21:04.240 that the basic

00:21:05.660 reason

00:21:06.160 that we do

00:21:07.280 not see

00:21:07.880 the truth

00:21:08.440 of things

00:21:09.060 is that we

00:21:10.300 are busy

00:21:11.000 using our

00:21:12.200 minds

00:21:12.720 to pursue

00:21:13.940 frivolous

00:21:14.660 dangerous

00:21:15.500 or unimportant

00:21:17.020 things.

00:21:18.220 The Latin word

00:21:19.080 negotium

00:21:20.080 means business

00:21:22.260 or the lack

00:21:23.760 of leisure

00:21:24.580 nec

00:21:25.360 otium

00:21:26.300 the lack

00:21:27.940 of attention

00:21:29.220 to what

00:21:30.360 is open

00:21:31.060 to be known.

00:21:33.980 A liberal

00:21:34.420 education

00:21:35.020 thus means

00:21:35.900 one

00:21:36.320 that is

00:21:37.380 free

00:21:37.840 to see

00:21:38.720 things

00:21:39.160 as they

00:21:39.540 really are

00:21:40.280 and not

00:21:42.080 under the

00:21:42.800 shadow

00:21:43.260 of our

00:21:44.200 passions

00:21:44.720 or wants.

00:21:46.320 So we're

00:21:46.840 free to see

00:21:47.680 what is there

00:21:48.700 so we become

00:21:49.520 not free

00:21:50.560 to change

00:21:51.060 what is there

00:21:51.600 but to grant

00:21:52.660 what is there

00:21:53.300 is really there.

00:21:55.340 We read a book

00:21:56.460 for its own

00:21:57.760 sake

00:21:58.140 or the truth

00:21:59.540 it contains

00:22:00.700 and not

00:22:01.200 just

00:22:02.220 to advance

00:22:03.760 our career

00:22:04.560 or to show

00:22:05.320 off.

00:22:06.780 It is not

00:22:07.840 so much

00:22:08.340 that people

00:22:10.100 should continue

00:22:11.800 with these

00:22:12.400 things after

00:22:13.300 their formal

00:22:13.920 education.

00:22:15.520 It is that

00:22:16.400 formal education

00:22:17.300 itself

00:22:17.880 is a preparation

00:22:19.260 for a life

00:22:20.740 of leisure

00:22:21.320 of having

00:22:22.700 good taste

00:22:23.720 in things

00:22:24.400 of being able

00:22:25.620 to understand

00:22:26.900 and judge

00:22:27.580 things

00:22:28.100 unencumbered

00:22:29.460 by our

00:22:30.240 emotions

00:22:30.740 or what

00:22:31.860 Socrates

00:22:32.380 called

00:22:33.000 the unexamined

00:22:34.420 life

00:22:34.900 the life

00:22:36.020 that has

00:22:37.020 never faced

00:22:38.760 the issue

00:22:39.900 of what it is

00:22:41.400 with a true

00:22:44.360 insight

00:22:44.980 into one's

00:22:46.380 own given

00:22:46.920 being

00:22:47.460 and what

00:22:48.520 it is for

00:22:49.620 the end of the quote.

00:22:51.160 Do you have

00:22:52.500 a recommended

00:22:53.320 regimen

00:22:53.840 for the

00:22:54.180 training

00:22:54.440 of the mind

00:22:54.880 and soul?

00:22:55.800 Is it

00:22:56.200 setting aside

00:22:56.960 certain times

00:22:57.560 for thought

00:22:58.000 writing

00:22:58.560 reading

00:22:59.040 what's

00:22:59.360 involved

00:22:59.660 there?

00:23:00.660 Well this

00:23:01.120 question goes

00:23:03.060 back to the

00:23:03.860 earlier

00:23:04.300 discussion

00:23:05.580 of the

00:23:06.240 Sertianj book

00:23:07.180 The Intellectual

00:23:08.880 Life

00:23:09.360 We are all

00:23:11.680 different enough

00:23:12.620 to caution us

00:23:14.560 on anything

00:23:15.560 but general

00:23:16.520 rules

00:23:17.200 Some people

00:23:18.600 work best

00:23:19.300 in the

00:23:19.820 morning

00:23:20.620 others

00:23:21.120 at night

00:23:22.100 at night

00:23:23.120 or other

00:23:23.560 times

00:23:24.160 When I get

00:23:25.900 started on

00:23:26.660 something

00:23:27.040 I like to

00:23:28.160 finish it

00:23:28.740 I do not

00:23:30.460 like to

00:23:30.980 parcel it out

00:23:31.880 A former

00:23:33.740 student of

00:23:34.340 mine is

00:23:34.760 working on

00:23:35.920 a doctorate

00:23:36.700 in philosophy

00:23:37.440 However she

00:23:39.300 is now

00:23:39.720 married and

00:23:40.460 slightly delayed

00:23:41.360 with four

00:23:42.380 little girls

00:23:43.180 Having any

00:23:45.200 time is a

00:23:46.000 blessing for

00:23:47.060 good mothers

00:23:47.640 I tell her

00:23:49.780 that A

00:23:51.000 she will

00:23:52.360 learn more

00:23:52.900 from her

00:23:53.380 children

00:23:53.820 and their

00:23:55.740 care

00:23:56.260 than from

00:23:57.400 any book

00:23:58.060 that any

00:23:59.100 book can

00:23:59.600 teach

00:24:00.060 and B

00:24:01.140 time will

00:24:02.140 come

00:24:02.520 when she

00:24:03.200 can

00:24:03.420 continue

00:24:03.960 Besides

00:24:05.640 her girls

00:24:06.640 will have

00:24:07.060 a mother

00:24:07.500 who knows

00:24:08.440 a thing

00:24:08.800 or two

00:24:09.240 about

00:24:09.920 metaphysics

00:24:10.680 A liberal

00:24:12.500 education

00:24:13.100 does not

00:24:14.300 exclude

00:24:14.880 the basic

00:24:15.900 things of

00:24:16.500 life

00:24:16.860 but enhances

00:24:18.120 them

00:24:18.620 I often

00:24:19.780 recall a

00:24:20.420 saying I

00:24:20.960 once heard

00:24:21.560 from an

00:24:22.400 American

00:24:22.760 Indian

00:24:23.340 woman

00:24:23.780 when someone

00:24:25.720 was complaining

00:24:27.120 that he

00:24:28.320 had no

00:24:28.720 time

00:24:29.300 the lady

00:24:30.880 responded

00:24:31.500 wisely

00:24:32.020 you have

00:24:33.220 all the

00:24:33.600 time

00:24:33.940 that there

00:24:34.360 is

00:24:34.860 indeed

00:24:36.640 each of

00:24:37.520 us

00:24:37.780 each day

00:24:38.560 has all

00:24:39.440 the time

00:24:39.920 there is

00:24:40.500 in that

00:24:41.100 day

00:24:41.440 the

00:24:44.220 philosopher

00:24:44.720 and the

00:24:45.680 detective

00:24:46.660 story writer

00:24:47.380 Ralph McInerney

00:24:48.460 used to

00:24:49.980 write

00:24:50.340 each day

00:24:51.600 two or

00:24:52.060 three pages

00:24:52.780 I have

00:24:54.640 just finished

00:24:55.280 reading a

00:24:56.380 50 page

00:24:57.120 essay

00:24:57.680 by my

00:24:58.940 Australian

00:24:59.420 friend

00:24:59.820 Tracy

00:25:00.180 Rowland

00:25:00.720 I read

00:25:02.260 10 pages

00:25:03.380 a day

00:25:03.980 for five

00:25:04.820 days

00:25:05.320 actually

00:25:07.780 I have

00:25:08.700 never set

00:25:09.160 aside

00:25:09.620 a specific

00:25:10.720 time for

00:25:11.440 thought

00:25:11.840 though I

00:25:12.880 have no

00:25:13.720 objection to

00:25:14.620 it

00:25:14.860 if it

00:25:15.800 works for

00:25:16.280 you

00:25:16.520 I find

00:25:18.380 that thought

00:25:18.960 rather arises

00:25:19.940 from what

00:25:21.120 I am

00:25:21.700 reading

00:25:22.120 or conversing

00:25:23.700 or from

00:25:25.020 some

00:25:25.540 perplexity

00:25:27.060 like what

00:25:28.160 Pope Francis

00:25:28.780 is about

00:25:29.500 or whether

00:25:30.600 we have

00:25:31.760 turned

00:25:33.940 into

00:25:34.520 a democratic

00:25:35.700 tyranny

00:25:36.580 when it

00:25:38.020 comes to

00:25:38.480 writing

00:25:38.860 it always

00:25:40.380 strikes me

00:25:41.120 that

00:25:41.540 the writing

00:25:42.720 is the

00:25:43.420 thinking

00:25:43.860 you never

00:25:45.340 really

00:25:45.800 know

00:25:46.700 what you

00:25:47.460 will write

00:25:48.060 when you

00:25:48.880 begin to

00:25:49.500 write

00:25:49.860 when you

00:25:50.600 begin to

00:25:51.000 write

00:25:51.200 something

00:25:51.700 things

00:25:53.040 gel

00:25:53.520 and

00:25:54.820 usually

00:25:55.240 you know

00:25:57.180 when

00:25:58.840 what you

00:25:59.600 want to

00:26:00.120 say

00:26:00.520 is

00:26:01.840 in your

00:26:03.000 writing

00:26:03.440 is finished

00:26:04.560 you see

00:26:05.360 that this

00:26:06.200 is

00:26:06.560 what you

00:26:07.440 want to

00:26:07.760 say

00:26:08.080 reading

00:26:08.780 is not

00:26:09.540 lost

00:26:10.060 time

00:26:10.580 but rather

00:26:11.800 if it

00:26:12.600 is good

00:26:13.020 it is

00:26:15.080 time

00:26:15.480 that is

00:26:16.300 the best

00:26:16.900 we hear

00:26:18.480 talk of

00:26:19.340 time being

00:26:20.020 empty

00:26:20.460 and in

00:26:22.080 a way

00:26:22.480 it is

00:26:24.160 empty

00:26:24.540 if we

00:26:25.160 do not

00:26:25.700 fill it

00:26:26.220 but we

00:26:28.160 do not

00:26:28.600 do this

00:26:29.260 as if

00:26:30.420 we

00:26:30.780 needed

00:26:31.520 no help

00:26:32.400 or inspiration

00:26:33.600 if we

00:26:35.380 come to

00:26:35.860 the end

00:26:36.300 of a month

00:26:36.960 or a year

00:26:37.840 and realize

00:26:39.080 that we

00:26:39.780 have not

00:26:40.600 read anything

00:26:41.560 that takes

00:26:43.360 us out

00:26:43.740 of our

00:26:44.220 admitted

00:26:45.040 duties

00:26:45.900 we need

00:26:47.820 to find

00:26:48.300 places

00:26:48.880 in our

00:26:49.660 days

00:26:50.000 for them

00:26:50.640 it is

00:26:52.300 amazing

00:26:52.720 what one

00:26:53.560 can do

00:26:54.240 with

00:26:55.160 small bits

00:26:56.080 of time

00:26:56.800 many

00:26:58.280 modern

00:26:58.880 instruments

00:27:00.000 like the

00:27:00.900 cell phone

00:27:01.500 or the

00:27:02.340 iPad

00:27:02.680 that we

00:27:04.420 carry

00:27:04.720 around

00:27:05.800 with us

00:27:08.300 whole

00:27:08.540 libraries

00:27:09.160 in our

00:27:10.020 pockets

00:27:10.480 are useful

00:27:11.600 but there

00:27:14.060 are

00:27:14.380 readings

00:27:15.440 and

00:27:16.200 seeings

00:27:18.000 that can

00:27:19.020 also

00:27:19.380 corrupt

00:27:19.860 us

00:27:20.240 this is

00:27:21.520 why

00:27:21.900 we need

00:27:23.040 self-control

00:27:27.320 virtue

00:27:28.380 and a

00:27:30.180 realization

00:27:30.800 that we

00:27:32.160 ourselves

00:27:32.700 need

00:27:33.740 self-discipline

00:27:35.160 so you

00:27:36.000 recommend

00:27:36.380 that everyone

00:27:36.860 should amass

00:27:37.500 their own

00:27:37.960 library

00:27:38.460 of good

00:27:38.880 books

00:27:39.260 and you

00:27:39.660 recommend

00:27:40.040 actual

00:27:40.520 hardbound

00:27:41.320 or paperback

00:27:42.260 books

00:27:42.640 as opposed

00:27:43.100 to digital

00:27:43.600 copies

00:27:44.040 why is

00:27:45.100 that

00:27:45.420 and is

00:27:46.200 there

00:27:46.300 something

00:27:46.500 about

00:27:46.820 the

00:27:47.000 physical

00:27:47.340 book

00:27:47.780 that

00:27:47.960 provides

00:27:48.320 more

00:27:48.560 intellectual

00:27:49.020 heft

00:27:49.340 to the

00:27:49.660 life

00:27:49.840 of the

00:27:50.040 mind

00:27:50.280 initially

00:27:51.340 I would

00:27:53.980 have to

00:27:54.380 warn you

00:27:55.200 that I

00:27:55.780 grew up

00:27:56.380 before

00:27:57.760 these

00:27:58.780 more

00:27:59.200 recent

00:27:59.800 instruments

00:28:00.580 were

00:28:01.360 available

00:28:01.800 to

00:28:02.100 everyone

00:28:02.560 I'm

00:28:04.360 not a

00:28:04.780 luddite

00:28:05.280 I have

00:28:06.960 a computer

00:28:07.640 and a

00:28:08.240 cell phone

00:28:08.840 which

00:28:10.520 does not

00:28:11.400 prevent me

00:28:12.200 from being

00:28:13.240 bewildered

00:28:13.920 at times

00:28:14.600 by the

00:28:15.640 amount

00:28:16.060 of information

00:28:17.240 now

00:28:17.760 immediately

00:28:18.420 available

00:28:19.000 to me

00:28:20.140 and how

00:28:20.780 to access

00:28:22.140 it

00:28:22.460 that

00:28:25.580 experience

00:28:26.260 alone

00:28:26.820 which

00:28:28.000 I

00:28:28.440 recommend

00:28:29.560 being

00:28:30.020 exposed

00:28:30.740 to

00:28:31.180 that is

00:28:32.080 say

00:28:32.420 how to

00:28:32.960 deal

00:28:34.200 with

00:28:34.500 the

00:28:34.920 modern

00:28:35.720 machine

00:28:36.260 is

00:28:37.380 a

00:28:38.300 healthy

00:28:38.600 one

00:28:39.020 it

00:28:40.620 is

00:28:40.760 important

00:28:41.240 to

00:28:41.540 know

00:28:41.900 what

00:28:43.100 we

00:28:43.280 might

00:28:43.640 know

00:28:45.600 but

00:28:45.980 probably

00:28:48.520 never

00:28:49.540 will

00:28:51.660 know

00:28:52.000 when

00:28:52.960 you

00:28:53.180 see

00:28:53.900 all

00:28:54.140 of

00:28:54.280 these

00:28:54.640 things

00:28:55.360 that

00:28:55.520 are

00:28:55.640 out

00:28:55.860 there

00:28:56.000 to

00:28:56.120 be

00:28:56.280 known

00:28:56.640 you

00:28:57.580 realize

00:28:58.040 that

00:28:58.380 it's

00:28:58.720 almost

00:28:59.000 an

00:28:59.240 infinite

00:28:59.540 kind

00:28:59.920 of

00:29:00.020 thing

00:29:00.260 and

00:29:00.420 many

00:29:00.620 of

00:29:00.760 those

00:29:00.940 things

00:29:01.260 you

00:29:01.980 will

00:29:02.160 never

00:29:02.480 know

00:29:03.640 this

00:29:05.300 is

00:29:05.500 true

00:29:05.900 of

00:29:06.740 the

00:29:06.880 most

00:29:07.260 learned

00:29:07.860 philosopher

00:29:08.920 or

00:29:09.300 scientist

00:29:09.820 as

00:29:10.900 of

00:29:11.500 the

00:29:11.680 simple

00:29:12.120 denison

00:29:13.380 of

00:29:13.920 our

00:29:14.120 cities

00:29:14.640 it

00:29:16.380 is

00:29:16.540 even

00:29:16.900 a

00:29:17.520 Socratic

00:29:18.080 experience

00:29:18.920 to

00:29:19.860 know

00:29:20.240 what

00:29:20.940 we

00:29:21.100 do

00:29:21.280 not

00:29:21.580 know

00:29:21.980 yet

00:29:22.600 I

00:29:22.800 still

00:29:23.280 recommend

00:29:24.100 having

00:29:24.880 one's

00:29:25.280 own

00:29:25.600 library

00:29:26.420 of

00:29:27.220 physical

00:29:27.640 books

00:29:28.260 if

00:29:29.780 you

00:29:29.980 are

00:29:30.180 opening

00:29:30.600 an

00:29:31.500 office

00:29:32.000 or

00:29:32.740 building

00:29:33.240 a

00:29:33.600 house

00:29:34.040 provide

00:29:37.240 space

00:29:38.080 for

00:29:38.540 books

00:29:39.020 do

00:29:40.640 not

00:29:41.020 swallow

00:29:41.720 the

00:29:42.200 paperless

00:29:44.000 world

00:29:44.580 whole

00:29:45.180 hog

00:29:45.640 it

00:29:48.160 is

00:29:48.360 an

00:29:48.540 eerie

00:29:48.800 feeling

00:29:49.280 to

00:29:49.540 go

00:29:49.760 into

00:29:50.020 a

00:29:50.260 home

00:29:50.540 or

00:29:50.740 an

00:29:50.900 office

00:29:51.280 in

00:29:52.100 which

00:29:52.360 there

00:29:53.120 are

00:29:53.320 no

00:29:53.540 books

00:29:53.940 even

00:29:55.340 if

00:29:55.740 there

00:29:55.920 are

00:29:56.120 computers

00:29:56.800 headphones

00:29:57.840 TVs

00:29:58.780 and

00:29:59.740 electronic

00:30:00.320 devices

00:30:00.960 everywhere

00:30:01.540 but

00:30:03.720 books

00:30:04.080 and

00:30:04.920 their

00:30:05.140 collecting

00:30:05.600 can

00:30:06.600 be

00:30:06.820 just

00:30:07.240 a

00:30:07.960 sort

00:30:08.220 of

00:30:08.380 hobby

00:30:08.840 see

00:30:10.580 how

00:30:10.840 many

00:30:11.120 first

00:30:12.120 editions

00:30:12.640 I

00:30:13.040 have

00:30:13.440 nothing

00:30:15.100 is

00:30:15.440 wrong

00:30:15.820 with

00:30:16.180 collecting

00:30:17.120 books

00:30:17.600 and

00:30:18.420 not

00:30:18.600 matter

00:30:18.960 but

00:30:19.660 it

00:30:19.780 is

00:30:19.880 not

00:30:20.100 what

00:30:20.280 I

00:30:20.460 mean

00:30:20.820 by

00:30:21.420 a

00:30:21.600 personal

00:30:22.000 library

00:30:22.720 also

00:30:24.880 I

00:30:25.620 am

00:30:25.800 aware

00:30:26.220 that

00:30:27.200 as one

00:30:27.680 gets

00:30:27.960 older

00:30:28.440 the

00:30:29.360 number

00:30:29.700 of

00:30:30.160 really

00:30:30.480 important

00:30:31.060 things

00:30:31.620 he

00:30:32.380 has

00:30:32.640 read

00:30:33.080 and

00:30:33.700 remembers

00:30:34.300 narrows

00:30:35.040 I

00:30:36.500 am

00:30:36.680 a

00:30:36.840 fan

00:30:37.180 of

00:30:37.500 C.S.

00:30:37.960 Lewis's

00:30:38.480 remark

00:30:38.980 that

00:30:40.020 if

00:30:40.200 you

00:30:40.300 have

00:30:40.460 only

00:30:40.740 read

00:30:41.200 a

00:30:41.960 great

00:30:42.240 book

00:30:42.600 once

00:30:43.240 you

00:30:43.880 have

00:30:44.020 not

00:30:44.280 read

00:30:44.580 it

00:30:44.860 at

00:30:45.480 all

00:30:45.960 and

00:30:47.480 as

00:30:48.060 a

00:30:48.620 professor

00:30:49.120 I

00:30:50.660 am

00:30:50.940 also

00:30:51.400 a

00:30:51.760 fan

00:30:52.200 of

00:30:52.940 his

00:30:53.140 other

00:30:53.560 remark

00:30:55.020 that

00:30:55.940 as

00:30:56.280 years

00:30:56.580 go

00:30:56.860 by

00:30:57.340 one

00:30:58.480 finds

00:30:58.980 that

00:30:59.260 he

00:30:59.480 has

00:30:59.800 taught

00:31:00.660 say

00:31:01.440 the

00:31:01.980 ethics

00:31:02.860 or

00:31:03.360 metaphysics

00:31:04.080 of

00:31:04.680 Aristotle

00:31:05.200 the

00:31:06.080 confessions

00:31:06.540 of

00:31:06.740 Augustine

00:31:07.340 or the

00:31:08.160 novels

00:31:08.520 of

00:31:08.820 Jane

00:31:09.120 Austen

00:31:09.660 20

00:31:10.580 or

00:31:10.880 30

00:31:11.220 times

00:31:11.780 and

00:31:12.780 somehow

00:31:13.140 on

00:31:14.160 each

00:31:14.500 time

00:31:14.920 through

00:31:15.320 the

00:31:16.260 book

00:31:16.600 we

00:31:17.260 learn

00:31:17.680 each

00:31:18.820 time

00:31:19.080 through

00:31:19.240 the

00:31:19.400 book

00:31:19.620 we

00:31:20.200 learn

00:31:20.500 new

00:31:20.780 things

00:31:21.320 and

00:31:22.000 things

00:31:22.360 we

00:31:22.940 never

00:31:23.180 saw

00:31:23.540 before

00:31:24.120 in

00:31:24.760 earlier

00:31:25.100 readings

00:31:25.620 you

00:31:26.220 use

00:31:26.560 the

00:31:26.760 word

00:31:27.100 intellectual

00:31:27.880 heft

00:31:28.460 a

00:31:29.820 good

00:31:30.060 word

00:31:30.500 a

00:31:31.620 certain

00:31:31.980 weightiness

00:31:32.800 while

00:31:34.880 the

00:31:35.140 electronic

00:31:35.740 books

00:31:36.400 remind

00:31:37.680 us

00:31:38.160 of how

00:31:38.640 fleeting

00:31:39.280 and

00:31:40.000 almost

00:31:40.460 incorporeal

00:31:41.460 books

00:31:42.240 can be

00:31:43.000 the

00:31:44.420 paper

00:31:44.700 book

00:31:45.120 the

00:31:45.920 thing

00:31:46.160 we

00:31:46.360 hold

00:31:46.700 in

00:31:46.860 our

00:31:47.060 hands

00:31:47.620 and

00:31:48.280 mark

00:31:48.620 up

00:31:48.900 gives

00:31:49.860 us

00:31:50.220 a

00:31:50.920 sense

00:31:51.780 of

00:31:52.660 concreteness

00:31:54.620 now

00:31:55.720 it is

00:31:56.040 true

00:31:56.420 that

00:31:57.240 a

00:31:57.440 novel

00:31:57.740 of

00:31:57.980 Dickens

00:31:58.440 or

00:31:58.700 Dostoevsky

00:31:59.460 will

00:32:00.740 take

00:32:01.060 us

00:32:01.320 through

00:32:01.680 whole

00:32:02.580 lifetimes

00:32:03.760 perhaps

00:32:04.540 many

00:32:05.040 generations

00:32:05.740 of

00:32:06.760 human

00:32:07.080 living

00:32:07.520 in

00:32:08.180 its

00:32:08.360 pages

00:32:08.820 what

00:32:10.340 counts

00:32:10.780 is

00:32:11.580 the

00:32:11.780 story

00:32:12.260 however

00:32:13.300 we

00:32:13.940 come

00:32:14.220 to

00:32:14.460 it

00:32:14.720 we

00:32:16.040 need

00:32:16.320 to

00:32:16.520 remember

00:32:16.940 it

00:32:17.300 to

00:32:18.160 remember

00:32:18.640 that

00:32:19.520 we

00:32:19.740 have

00:32:20.540 read

00:32:20.840 it

00:32:21.320 followed

00:32:22.560 it

00:32:23.340 in

00:32:23.560 our

00:32:23.780 souls

00:32:24.520 and

00:32:25.900 followed

00:32:26.200 in

00:32:26.420 our

00:32:26.600 souls

00:32:27.020 it's

00:32:28.040 drama

00:32:28.480 that

00:32:29.400 becomes

00:32:29.820 ours

00:32:30.340 and so

00:32:31.420 having

00:32:31.700 the book

00:32:32.160 right there

00:32:32.660 that we

00:32:33.000 have read

00:32:33.500 is a

00:32:34.380 constant

00:32:34.820 thing

00:32:35.700 that we

00:32:36.000 can go

00:32:36.340 back

00:32:36.640 to

00:32:36.900 there is

00:32:37.500 another

00:32:37.780 thing

00:32:38.160 that

00:32:38.420 haunts

00:32:38.760 me

00:32:39.080 it is

00:32:41.320 the

00:32:41.460 having

00:32:41.700 read

00:32:42.080 many

00:32:42.440 things

00:32:43.020 but

00:32:44.020 never

00:32:44.360 anything

00:32:45.080 of

00:32:45.960 much

00:32:46.200 importance

00:32:46.880 I

00:32:48.920 have

00:32:49.120 to

00:32:49.220 be

00:32:49.400 careful

00:32:49.740 here

00:32:50.100 I

00:32:51.580 once

00:32:51.880 had

00:32:52.060 a

00:32:52.220 wise

00:32:52.520 professor

00:32:53.140 who

00:32:54.280 said

00:32:54.580 that

00:32:54.900 even

00:32:55.840 in

00:32:56.420 reading

00:32:56.860 lousy

00:32:57.560 novels

00:32:58.060 we

00:32:58.920 will

00:32:59.080 come

00:32:59.260 across

00:32:59.720 incidents

00:33:00.260 and

00:33:01.060 characters

00:33:01.580 that

00:33:02.600 teach us

00:33:03.140 something

00:33:03.580 something

00:33:04.340 worth

00:33:04.820 knowing

00:33:05.260 we

00:33:06.960 cannot

00:33:07.300 forget

00:33:07.840 that

00:33:08.740 if

00:33:08.900 we

00:33:09.040 run

00:33:09.260 across

00:33:09.760 a

00:33:10.100 bad

00:33:10.520 or

00:33:11.200 unjust

00:33:11.760 character

00:33:12.400 it

00:33:13.380 is a

00:33:13.680 good

00:33:13.840 thing

00:33:14.220 to

00:33:14.480 know

00:33:14.740 about

00:33:15.080 such

00:33:15.360 things

00:33:15.840 the

00:33:17.220 very

00:33:17.480 purpose

00:33:18.080 of

00:33:18.880 literature

00:33:19.320 is

00:33:20.320 to

00:33:20.500 teach

00:33:20.800 us

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00:33:22.260 more

00:33:24.200 lives

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00:33:25.780 own

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00:33:27.780 can

00:33:27.920 only

00:33:28.120 live

00:33:28.340 one

00:33:28.580 life

00:33:28.920 but

00:33:29.200 in

00:33:29.660 literature

00:33:29.980 we

00:33:30.260 can

00:33:30.440 read

00:33:30.800 and

00:33:31.900 live

00:33:32.200 many

00:33:32.640 lives

00:33:33.140 however

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00:33:35.300 and

00:33:35.720 complicated

00:33:36.340 our

00:33:37.160 own

00:33:37.440 life

00:33:37.740 may

00:33:37.980 be

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00:33:39.240 knowledge

00:33:39.620 of

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00:33:41.260 serve

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00:33:42.580 our

00:33:43.140 experience

00:33:43.880 in

00:33:44.740 its

00:33:45.020 more

00:33:45.480 balanced

00:33:46.340 place

00:33:46.920 in

00:33:47.840 any

00:33:48.060 case

00:33:48.380 to

00:33:48.540 go

00:33:48.720 back

00:33:49.040 the

00:33:50.100 library

00:33:50.540 of

00:33:50.780 books

00:33:51.080 that

00:33:52.040 we

00:33:52.300 have

00:33:52.740 ourselves

00:33:53.740 read

00:33:54.280 and

00:33:55.080 kept

00:33:55.480 should

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00:33:56.660 books

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00:33:57.780 have

00:33:57.960 not

00:33:58.220 yet

00:33:58.500 read

00:33:58.940 which

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00:34:00.240 be

00:34:00.460 infinite

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00:34:01.140 know

00:34:01.480 and

00:34:02.400 a

00:34:02.580 library

00:34:03.540 of

00:34:04.000 books

00:34:04.340 includes

00:34:06.280 this

00:34:06.620 the

00:34:06.820 things

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00:34:07.240 we

00:34:07.460 will

00:34:08.100 read

00:34:08.480 I

00:34:10.280 usually

00:34:10.580 mark

00:34:10.960 up

00:34:11.200 my

00:34:11.440 books

00:34:11.860 the

00:34:13.080 books

00:34:13.420 we

00:34:13.720 have

00:34:14.120 read

00:34:14.600 vividly

00:34:16.180 recall

00:34:16.680 to us

00:34:17.240 our

00:34:18.000 own

00:34:18.460 journey

00:34:19.080 the

00:34:19.980 account

00:34:20.400 of

00:34:21.180 the

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00:34:22.200 souls

00:34:22.820 of

00:34:24.140 others

00:34:24.540 that

00:34:24.940 we

00:34:25.500 have

00:34:25.680 taken

00:34:26.000 into

00:34:26.340 ourselves

00:34:27.060 what

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00:34:28.760 read

00:34:29.200 no

00:34:29.520 doubt

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00:34:30.680 not

00:34:30.900 all

00:34:31.280 that

00:34:31.580 we

00:34:31.800 know

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00:34:37.000 reality

00:34:37.560 itself

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00:34:42.720 experiences

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00:34:44.020 pains

00:34:44.600 indeed

00:34:45.980 the

00:34:46.800 library

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00:34:48.300 our

00:34:48.680 read

00:34:49.700 books

00:34:50.220 must

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00:34:52.220 judgments

00:34:52.740 on

00:34:53.200 them

00:34:53.540 and

00:34:54.220 their

00:34:54.420 worth

00:34:54.880 it

00:34:55.980 is

00:34:56.160 not

00:34:56.440 an

00:34:56.680 evil

00:34:57.020 to

00:34:57.640 know

00:34:58.000 what

00:34:58.300 is

00:34:58.480 wrong

00:34:58.880 with

00:34:59.100 something

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00:35:01.300 is

00:35:01.760 only

00:35:02.080 evil

00:35:02.600 when

00:35:03.280 we

00:35:03.500 know

00:35:03.940 that

00:35:04.700 it

00:35:04.900 is

00:35:05.220 evil

00:35:05.620 but

00:35:06.440 declare

00:35:07.360 and

00:35:07.680 decide

00:35:08.200 that

00:35:08.920 it

00:35:09.040 is

00:35:09.180 right

00:35:09.520 to

00:35:10.000 go

00:35:10.200 ahead

00:35:10.580 and

00:35:11.220 do

00:35:11.420 it

00:35:11.680 so

00:35:13.520 our

00:35:13.880 libraries

00:35:14.420 will

00:35:15.540 as

00:35:16.200 we

00:35:16.400 get

00:35:16.580 older

00:35:17.000 contain

00:35:18.200 many

00:35:18.820 things

00:35:19.380 we

00:35:20.700 need

00:35:20.980 to

00:35:21.180 work

00:35:21.460 at

00:35:21.700 it

00:35:21.980 keep

00:35:22.940 it

00:35:23.140 in

00:35:23.440 some

00:35:23.740 order

00:35:24.200 add

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00:35:25.560 it

00:35:25.880 even

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00:35:27.600 it

00:35:27.760 to

00:35:27.940 others

00:35:28.440 there

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00:35:29.900 always

00:35:30.220 a

00:35:30.460 certain

00:35:30.740 pleasure

00:35:31.320 and

00:35:32.540 awe

00:35:33.040 in

00:35:33.980 inspecting

00:35:35.040 the

00:35:35.400 library

00:35:35.980 of

00:35:36.680 another

00:35:36.940 person

00:35:37.560 living

00:35:38.320 or

00:35:38.780 dead

00:35:39.220 are

00:35:40.300 there

00:35:40.400 any

00:35:40.560 books

00:35:40.760 you

00:35:40.900 recommend

00:35:41.280 folks

00:35:41.880 start

00:35:42.060 off

00:35:42.260 with

00:35:42.580 granted

00:35:43.900 the

00:35:44.360 vagaries

00:35:44.920 of

00:35:45.380 inflation

00:35:45.940 and

00:35:47.200 the

00:35:47.380 availability

00:35:47.820 of

00:35:48.280 used

00:35:48.620 bookstores

00:35:49.440 I

00:35:50.760 used

00:35:51.020 to

00:35:51.240 say

00:35:51.560 that

00:35:51.940 with

00:35:52.260 $500

00:35:53.300 or so

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00:35:55.900 coffees

00:35:56.500 of

00:35:57.240 many

00:35:57.580 of

00:35:57.980 the

00:35:58.300 basic

00:35:59.160 things

00:35:59.780 the

00:36:00.680 collected

00:36:01.020 works

00:36:01.400 of

00:36:01.600 Plato

00:36:02.020 Aristotle

00:36:03.120 Sophocles

00:36:03.900 and

00:36:04.740 Cicero

00:36:05.280 he

00:36:06.660 could

00:36:06.840 have

00:36:07.180 the

00:36:07.360 Bible

00:36:07.760 and

00:36:08.040 Shakespeare

00:36:08.520 the

00:36:10.080 cost

00:36:10.520 would

00:36:10.820 mean

00:36:11.220 not

00:36:11.940 going

00:36:12.300 to

00:36:12.620 movies

00:36:13.720 a

00:36:13.920 couple

00:36:14.120 of

00:36:14.280 times

00:36:14.700 or

00:36:15.700 not

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00:36:17.580 a

00:36:17.780 concert

00:36:18.260 or

00:36:20.600 not

00:36:21.000 being

00:36:22.080 someplace

00:36:24.040 else

00:36:24.560 that

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00:36:25.420 did

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00:36:25.840 have

00:36:26.060 to

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00:36:26.420 to

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00:36:27.840 I

00:36:27.980 have

00:36:28.180 to

00:36:28.340 add

00:36:28.740 that

00:36:29.400 having

00:36:29.780 a

00:36:30.660 library

00:36:31.300 of

00:36:31.800 good

00:36:32.060 books

00:36:32.420 is

00:36:33.060 also

00:36:33.520 a

00:36:34.120 good

00:36:34.340 thing

00:36:34.760 so

00:36:35.880 we

00:36:36.060 need

00:36:36.340 to

00:36:36.480 have

00:36:36.720 in

00:36:36.920 that

00:36:37.120 library

00:36:37.700 a

00:36:38.760 library

00:36:39.120 of

00:36:39.360 movies

00:36:39.680 I

00:36:39.920 think

00:36:40.180 I

00:36:40.820 am

00:36:40.980 also

00:36:41.440 aware

00:36:42.000 that

00:36:42.840 a

00:36:43.020 library

00:36:43.420 is

00:36:44.040 a

00:36:44.380 heavy

00:36:44.700 thing

00:36:45.300 books

00:36:46.460 weigh

00:36:46.940 and

00:36:47.960 are

00:36:48.200 costly

00:36:48.660 to

00:36:48.960 ship

00:36:49.300 it

00:36:50.520 is

00:36:50.700 hard

00:36:51.020 to

00:36:51.280 answer

00:36:51.600 someone

00:36:52.180 who

00:36:52.460 says

00:36:52.860 that

00:36:53.880 I

00:36:54.180 can

00:36:54.400 get

00:36:54.700 all

00:36:55.540 of

00:36:55.700 the

00:36:55.840 things

00:36:56.180 that

00:36:56.480 you

00:36:56.640 recommend

00:36:57.120 and

00:36:58.000 more

00:36:58.380 and

00:37:00.000 put

00:37:00.220 them

00:37:00.440 right

00:37:00.720 here

00:37:01.100 in

00:37:01.340 this

00:37:01.560 little

00:37:01.860 gadget

00:37:02.340 that

00:37:03.220 I'm

00:37:03.460 carrying

00:37:03.740 around

00:37:04.120 in my

00:37:04.520 hand

00:37:04.900 or

00:37:05.060 pocket

00:37:05.440 indeed

00:37:07.200 someone

00:37:07.640 suggested

00:37:08.420 that I

00:37:09.640 make

00:37:09.920 such

00:37:10.260 an

00:37:10.600 online

00:37:11.100 reading

00:37:12.360 apps

00:37:15.100 available

00:37:15.780 my only

00:37:17.980 response

00:37:19.240 is

00:37:19.660 go for

00:37:21.120 it

00:37:21.420 but going

00:37:23.400 back to

00:37:23.940 the question

00:37:24.660 about

00:37:25.200 what books

00:37:26.440 to start

00:37:26.940 with

00:37:27.260 I want

00:37:28.600 to

00:37:29.040 recount

00:37:29.640 a story

00:37:30.700 that I

00:37:31.260 often tell

00:37:32.040 when I

00:37:32.700 was 18

00:37:33.380 in the

00:37:33.780 army

00:37:34.140 I

00:37:35.340 had

00:37:35.540 just

00:37:35.760 finished

00:37:36.140 a

00:37:36.360 semester

00:37:36.780 of

00:37:37.640 college

00:37:38.020 at

00:37:38.260 Santa

00:37:38.500 Clara

00:37:38.840 it

00:37:40.540 was a

00:37:41.140 fleeting

00:37:41.540 time

00:37:42.040 but

00:37:42.400 I

00:37:43.120 began

00:37:43.460 to

00:37:43.700 get

00:37:43.900 some

00:37:44.280 idea

00:37:44.880 of

00:37:45.640 the

00:37:45.800 vast

00:37:46.140 reaches

00:37:46.520 of

00:37:46.880 what

00:37:47.100 I

00:37:47.560 did

00:37:47.760 not

00:37:48.040 know

00:37:48.560 the

00:37:50.420 next

00:37:50.680 thing

00:37:50.960 I

00:37:51.220 knew

00:37:51.540 was

00:37:52.420 that

00:37:52.780 I

00:37:53.240 was

00:37:53.640 in

00:37:54.320 Fort

00:37:54.540 Belvoir

00:37:55.100 Virginia

00:37:55.720 the

00:37:57.200 war

00:37:57.600 had

00:37:58.160 just

00:37:58.500 ended

00:37:59.060 so

00:37:59.940 there

00:38:00.240 was

00:38:00.640 really

00:38:01.000 no

00:38:01.260 pressing

00:38:01.740 worry

00:38:02.260 about

00:38:03.000 getting

00:38:03.320 shot

00:38:03.860 not

00:38:04.960 a

00:38:05.080 wholly

00:38:05.400 unhealthy

00:38:06.180 worry

00:38:07.280 to be

00:38:09.700 sure

00:38:10.000 we

00:38:11.460 had

00:38:11.840 a

00:38:12.180 fair

00:38:12.360 amount

00:38:12.740 of

00:38:13.020 free

00:38:13.260 time

00:38:13.660 as it

00:38:14.140 was

00:38:14.340 called

00:38:14.740 I

00:38:15.820 thought

00:38:16.100 that

00:38:16.300 I

00:38:16.420 really

00:38:16.760 want

00:38:17.420 to

00:38:17.860 be

00:38:18.040 reading

00:38:18.400 things

00:38:19.160 so

00:38:20.740 with

00:38:21.080 this

00:38:21.340 resolve

00:38:22.020 I

00:38:23.540 went

00:38:23.780 into

00:38:24.120 the

00:38:24.340 post

00:38:24.620 library

00:38:25.160 one

00:38:25.520 evening

00:38:26.060 it

00:38:27.960 was

00:38:28.140 a

00:38:28.280 fairly

00:38:28.500 large

00:38:29.040 library

00:38:29.920 designed

00:38:30.560 I

00:38:30.780 presume

00:38:31.280 for

00:38:32.100 the

00:38:32.240 use

00:38:32.480 of

00:38:32.660 the

00:38:32.820 troops

00:38:33.140 at

00:38:33.860 the

00:38:34.000 engineering

00:38:34.380 school

00:38:34.940 that I

00:38:35.880 was

00:38:36.100 attending

00:38:36.580 it

00:38:38.540 was

00:38:38.900 in

00:38:39.420 the

00:38:40.200 old

00:38:40.600 Dewey

00:38:41.120 Deci

00:38:41.360 the

00:38:41.540 library

00:38:41.820 was

00:38:42.140 classified

00:38:43.060 in

00:38:43.380 the

00:38:43.500 old

00:38:43.760 Dewey

00:38:44.080 Decimal

00:38:44.480 System

00:38:44.960 I

00:38:46.560 looked

00:38:47.320 around

00:38:47.820 at

00:38:48.500 the

00:38:48.640 library

00:38:49.160 and

00:38:50.120 suddenly

00:38:50.500 I

00:38:50.820 realized

00:38:51.520 that I

00:38:52.360 had no

00:38:52.760 idea

00:38:53.300 what to

00:38:54.220 read

00:38:54.620 or where

00:38:55.060 to

00:38:55.200 begin

00:38:55.600 I

00:38:57.840 recall

00:38:58.180 checking

00:38:58.600 out

00:38:58.940 a

00:38:59.200 novel

00:38:59.540 of

00:39:00.200 Aldous

00:39:00.660 Huxley

00:39:01.180 whom

00:39:02.000 I

00:39:02.240 had

00:39:02.520 evidently

00:39:03.180 heard

00:39:03.800 of

00:39:04.040 someplace

00:39:04.640 the

00:39:05.520 novel

00:39:05.800 was

00:39:06.060 called

00:39:06.440 Chrome

00:39:06.940 Yellow

00:39:07.380 it

00:39:10.040 is

00:39:10.180 too

00:39:10.380 bad

00:39:10.660 that

00:39:10.860 I

00:39:11.000 did

00:39:11.200 not

00:39:11.540 understand

00:39:13.280 the

00:39:13.760 significance

00:39:14.300 of the

00:39:15.840 plot

00:39:16.380 of that

00:39:16.980 book

00:39:17.420 at the

00:39:17.980 time

00:39:18.400 it

00:39:19.660 is

00:39:19.820 nothing

00:39:20.120 less

00:39:20.600 than

00:39:21.560 a

00:39:21.860 prediction

00:39:22.300 of a

00:39:23.360 world

00:39:23.780 in which

00:39:24.660 the

00:39:24.900 family

00:39:25.380 is

00:39:26.380 replaced

00:39:27.020 by

00:39:27.820 scientific

00:39:28.620 begotten

00:39:29.520 babies

00:39:30.140 wherein

00:39:31.060 sterile

00:39:31.860 sexual

00:39:32.300 relations

00:39:32.980 have

00:39:33.740 nothing

00:39:34.040 to do

00:39:34.720 with

00:39:35.440 human

00:39:35.740 life

00:39:36.200 that

00:39:37.300 is

00:39:38.240 now

00:39:38.580 controlled

00:39:39.500 by

00:39:40.240 the

00:39:40.500 state

00:39:40.880 planners

00:39:42.320 talk

00:39:43.840 about

00:39:44.140 missing

00:39:44.460 the

00:39:44.800 vote

00:39:45.120 at

00:39:45.640 that

00:39:45.840 time

00:39:46.240 it

00:39:47.380 was

00:39:47.580 this

00:39:47.800 experience

00:39:48.400 that

00:39:49.460 has

00:39:49.720 made

00:39:50.040 me

00:39:50.340 aware

00:39:50.880 over

00:39:51.620 the

00:39:51.840 years

00:39:52.300 of

00:39:53.160 the

00:39:53.340 need

00:39:53.760 to

00:39:54.480 have

00:39:54.920 some

00:39:55.520 idea

00:39:56.080 of

00:39:56.980 what

00:39:57.180 to

00:39:57.400 read

00:39:57.840 and

00:39:58.440 where

00:39:58.720 to

00:39:58.940 begin

00:39:59.420 my

00:40:00.980 books

00:40:01.440 another

00:40:02.060 sort

00:40:02.520 of

00:40:02.700 learning

00:40:03.140 and

00:40:04.060 the

00:40:04.280 students

00:40:04.740 guide

00:40:05.380 to

00:40:06.020 liberal

00:40:06.380 learning

00:40:06.900 as well

00:40:08.080 as

00:40:08.780 the

00:40:08.940 life

00:40:09.280 of

00:40:09.500 the

00:40:09.660 mind

00:40:10.180 and

00:40:10.900 dosilitas

00:40:11.620 on

00:40:12.660 teaching

00:40:13.060 and

00:40:13.500 being

00:40:13.880 taught

00:40:14.340 come

00:40:15.460 from

00:40:15.780 this

00:40:16.100 initial

00:40:16.740 experience

00:40:18.120 over

00:40:19.800 the

00:40:20.060 years

00:40:20.480 I

00:40:22.700 give

00:40:22.960 slightly

00:40:23.340 different

00:40:24.040 short

00:40:24.680 lists

00:40:25.040 of

00:40:25.720 books

00:40:26.020 to

00:40:26.280 read

00:40:26.740 but

00:40:28.980 where

00:40:29.240 to

00:40:29.480 start

00:40:29.940 when

00:40:31.060 it

00:40:31.200 comes

00:40:31.460 down

00:40:31.840 to

00:40:32.220 the

00:40:32.640 wire

00:40:33.700 and

00:40:34.340 someone

00:40:34.900 from

00:40:35.980 some

00:40:36.480 unacknowledged

00:40:38.020 or

00:40:38.320 unknowing

00:40:38.900 background

00:40:39.560 asks me

00:40:40.300 what

00:40:41.540 do

00:40:41.900 you

00:40:42.140 suggest

00:40:42.680 that

00:40:43.420 I

00:40:43.580 read

00:40:44.020 to

00:40:44.780 this

00:40:45.160 request

00:40:46.680 I

00:40:46.960 usually

00:40:47.320 reply

00:40:47.960 begin

00:40:49.320 with

00:40:49.680 Chesterton's

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The Art of Manliness - July 31, 2025

#197： On the Joys and Travails of Thinking

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