Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else."
阅读是一种祈祷形式,一种引导冥想,让我们短暂地相信自己变成了另一个人。