Rich wrote: Doug said: > > > But you must have read thousands of pages of history! > > About sixty thousand pages of history, I'd estimate. Not nearly > enough, anyway.
Well that sounds like a hell of a lot to me. I've read a bit of American history, especially the Civil War, but I don't have the kind of command of the facts that you do on what you've studied (especially with my library still in boxes). > But the problem is the opportunity cost of reading the Baroque Cycle. > In that number of pages I could get through, for example, the whole > surviving part of Livy's history of Rome, or a handful of modern > histories. I'll get to it eventually, I suppose. Well don't feel guilty about reading the Livy even if you _never_ get to the Stephenson. Doug _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
