Curious

1. Realize that you are not the only one with gaping holes in your literary knowledge.

2. Realize that you are not the only one to sheepishly question that author’s “greatness”; by the same token, you will probably not be the only to look back and find yourself prone to misplaced, hypercritical disillusionment in sundry times and diverse places.

3. Realize that you are not the only one to scribble absentmindedly in dozens of notebooks, squirrel away legal pads full of pre-writing diagrams, or write and collect abstracts for a dozen paper proposals you’ll never get the chance to flesh out.