How to Read a Book, Part I

Hull: Strauss himself is the first, really, in history, who unlocks these things for you and shows you the plan of both. You have to count the paragraphs of the chapters because he's divided up just the way machiavelli divides the discourses. He says if i get the quote right, he fascinates his reader, or a certain type of reader, with riddles,. Then, becoming the reader, becomes then obsessed with problem solving, and becomes oblivious of all higher duties. Hull admits that there was a period some years back when he decided "i'm ong to start applying what strauss discloses"