Show high time lor for pert miss aliss to catch up on reading clifton fadiman in his book reading ive liked warns the layman against spending all this his time trying to keep up with the latest books he tells about one of his old professors who sat beside a pert young thing at arinner party professor she piped up have you read so and sos new novel he confessed he oh she said better hurry its been out over three months young lady he said have you read dantes divine comedy why no better hurry its been out over six hundred years |