How Did I Get Down the Strauss Rabbit Hole?

i was still pretty new at the study of strauss in the early nineties. My gateway into that was closing the merican mind, as itas was for so many people. So when i first encountered thoughts of machiavelle, i was thinking about it less in terms of strauss's ouvre than as a way to understand Machiavelle. And it was very helpful in that regard,. But i only started to fit it into strauss's larger project laterkw, five to ten years ae or when i was, i guess more like 5, three to five, when i got to gradsga, loing ut to clermontin 94.