Reading Life

I am reining my reading life back in. As I was finishing Dean's "Blind Ambition", as much as I enjoyed this trip through Watergate, even regarding this book as a rereadable, I was feeling undernourished and realized that such political books are kind of like novels, albeit non-fictional. I needed richer content. So, I am leaving the books on Alger Hiss and the Supreme Court on the 'wanna read' stack for an uncertain duration, knowing that books often go there to die and never be heard from again. I am returning home to my paradise of "Magic Mountain", "Lolita", and Shakespeare. I have started Ronald Hayman's "Nietzsche: A Critical Life", which I've had on my bookshelves for a little while now, and which I consider to be deep background for Magic Mountain. Though, it could happen that Nietzsche becomes a primary figure himself in my mindscape, thus making for a Mann-Nietzsche Universe. In any case, this is definitely what the doctor ordered. Hitting the subjects of free will and of the dubious line between madness and genius, I feel like my time is being spent meaningfully again, as opposed to reading about the office battles of Washington politics, however interesting such politics can be to me.