The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

Have been unpacking recently, found quite a few books I had thought I lost or had, with a false sense of relief, thought I didn't own, among them The Book of Questions, Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Chessmen of Mars, and a copy of The Two Towers with the cover torn off. It is important, though difficult, to balance one's reading, to make sure that the moments we allot to it, those quiet or perhaps noisy (inwardly) times, are not all of the same texture. One might balance, for instance, a reading of Tolkien with a reading of Rosmarie Waldrop's Blindsight with a reading of Winston Churchill's The History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol. 1: The Birth (Berth?) of Britain. In this way keeping afloat, not becoming polarized. Other words for this creed might be "health," "diffusion," "staying well-balanced," or "having no focus." For me, it simply Is.