The Unusual Reader

One of life's great pleasures is coming across a thinker or an artist who has sort of touched the same wound or rupture as you. It's so thrilling when someone has reached the same conclusions as you by walking a totally different path. I'm thinking of a line from allan bennett's very funny novella about the queen starting to read fiction, called the uncommon reader. Im in there, there's this line that you don't put your life into books, you find it there. There we can start seeing major developments in thought as momentary psychotic breaks,. Whether that would be the original impulse of marxism or hegel's insights; if it ends up being something as