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Reading Advice

Mere Fidelity

CHAPTER

The Importance of Deep Reading

Alastair MacKinnon: Some books are going to do more for you. You're going to have to sit with them and let them get into you and deepen you. He says reading PG Wodehouse at the end of the day is a perfect palate cleanser, even if it's been a rough day. But how can people who want to cultivate an intellectual life encounter or read books that are going to stretch them more?MacKinnon: It doesn't actually take that much time to read and to meditate on and allow it to marinate in.

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