An Excerpt

From Chapter One of my book:

Anyone who thinks that discipline has no place in our pleasures and our leisure has no experience of its true operation. Undisciplined pleasure quickly becomes nothing of pleasure while retaining all of its undisciplined character. Unending sweets first please, then pall and finally sicken. Long vacations are initially relaxing, then dull and in the end, unendurable. Just so, unfocused and undisciplined reading becomes distracted, scattered and profitless. Like a petulant gourmand the reader flits from book to book seeking cheaper and cheaper thrills, the digestion becomes more and more dainty, unwilling and unable to wade through whole strong, meaty works for sustenance and finally seeking the supplement bars and drinks of the literary world – condensed books, books of quotations and anthologized extracts.

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