OK so earlier today I resolved to stop reading. Reading was ruining me and making me angry. Then tonight I lay on the bed and read through a cookbook (yeah I’m fucking serious jerk) and decided OK I will only read things that are instructional in nature and I lusted — LUST not being too pushy a word — lusted for a book that would teach me about weather patterns and types of birds and musical instruments and diagrams of boats — basically things that are intrinsically apolitical, and by the way do you know of any books like that, should I just invest in the Encycl. Britann. and be done with it.