Matt Berry, A Human Strategy, aphorism 132

132
It is not that I want to read so few books; it is just that I refuse to learn from those same few books those very lessons which experience teaches me much later.  All of my reading pours through me as if I were a sieve.  Once in a rare while a word knots up with an event and plugs the mesh.  I manage to retain a little more in my small pool of wisdom.  Certain books promote this knotting and clogging more than others.  I have no choice but to limit my reading to them.



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