What It Means To Live A `Bookish` Life
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What is the true point of a bookish life? Note I write `point,` not `goal.` The bookish life can have no goal: It is all means and no end. The point, I should say, is not to become immensely knowledgeable or clever, and certainly not to become learned. Montaigne, who more than five centuries ago […]