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Thanks to [Michael Preedy](https://substack.com/profile/131860646-michael-preedy) and his eloquent gratitude to Stephen Greenblatt for _The Swerve_.  
May we all have a “prepared mind” for opening ourselves to learning, be readers, be pursuers of pleasure, and be deep in our knowledge and courage and souls seeking justice and the higher ideals to preserve wisdom for the generations to come — because serving those ideals is certainly not a straight path.

That he could count On the Nature of Things among his prized possessions is thanks to the extraordinary efforts of preservers of knowledge across the centuries: monks, librarians, archivists, and especially the humanist scholars steeped in the traditions and treasures of classical culture.

Reading literature for six months will improve your writing more than six years of writing workshops.