An autobiography of experiences in books. It takes the form of both commentaries and essays, not so much reviews of the substance of the books, but direct experience of reading each one, and the free play of reasoning about the text and where it leads me. While much of this work is devoted to literary criticism, I see it as primarily an over all work of philosophy. As it now is, it constitutes a kind of personal encyclopedia of direct experience of texts, arranged in the chronological order of the books, and divided into subheadings of Greek and Chinese philosophers, Romantic Poets,Post Kantians etc.