Recommends Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne.

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…Yes, it is, in some moments. I think it is another one, a little like The Faerie Queene, that requires your patience, that requires you to do something to take the edge off your panic at the boredom that will ensue. For some people, that will be resignation, I’m sure. For some people, that will be — I don’t know — alcohol. For some people, it will be a kind of exhaustedness, but something that will allow you to give in to being quite substantially bored on the grounds that it will slow down the beat of your heart, and it will force your imagination to grapple with something slower and broader. The way that Spenser talks about fashioning his ideal reader, the texts tell you how to read them. Katherine Rundell. I’d just like to recommend to you all, first, Katherine has a short book called Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. She has a wide variety of best-selling children’s books, but her most recent book is Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which I recommend very, very highly. And of course, I recommend Donne as well. Katherine, who also goes by the name Kate, it has been great chatting with you. We thank you very much, and good luck with the books. Thank you so much. Thank you.…

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