I would venture to say, that most, if not all of us love books. Well, then you know how it feels when you get that "special" book you've been waiting fore.
I'm not sure what your is or even if you have a pre-ritual to get yourself ready to begin reading it. I won't tell you mine, suffice it to say, I do have one. You?
I'm going through the m.Ed Introduction to Plato's Republic A Christian Reading. One of the course speakers quips that moderns don't read history/politics like they did 'back in the day' and gives this "ritual" that Machiavelli had.
I know some can identify with this.
Since the cultural revolution in the 1960s, we don’t read these books anymore, so we’ve forgotten their power. But let me give you a little bit of an idea. The greatest political strategist, certainly in modern history at least, was Niccolò Machiavelli. And what you probably don’t know is that Machiavelli would read the classics every day. After his workday was complete, every evening, he would retire to his chambers, where he would bathe and dress formally in preparation to read these books. Before engaging with these books, he would clothe himself in his best attire because he said, “I am in the company of kings.” You see, he recognized the tremendous privilege it is to read these books. He realized that when you read these books, the greatest minds of the past two millennia become your personal tutors and instructors.
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