>reading a novel
>poem appears in the middle of a chapter
>skip over it
>open Mountaigne's Essays
>he tells me i not to read them
>do it anyway
>start a novel
>introduction by some "scholar"
>skip it
>forward by the author
>skip it
>prologue starts off boring
>skip it
>first three chapters look boring
>skip them
>fourth chapter is decent but not sure what's happening
>read pinecone
>sing along