Question:“On which book to read”
On which book to read
A book is not chosen by you. It is chosen by where you stand. The right book holds what you lack now.
Three descend. Read the first page of each and go where the mind leans.
- The Odyssey, HomerThe first chapter of every story about going home.
- The Apology, PlatoThe first book that teaches how to ask.
- Walden, Henry David ThoreauHow to live alone and own little, in one volume.
Homer’s song existed before the letters that hold it.