> Having taken Carl Sagan's axiom to heart that we have a very limited number of books we can read in our lifetimes and should therefore hold them dearly, I rea

> Having taken Carl Sagan's axiom to heart that we have a very limited number of books we can read in our lifetimes and should therefore hold them dearly, I read few books older than 200 years. It's so strange how the same idea can affect people so differently. Sagan's axiom actually made me read old books only. Bible, greek mythology, shakespeare, etc. I even learned latin to read Newton's Principia, vulgate and other latin texts. I don't think I have the patience to learn ancient greek. Pretty much every modern literature is derivative of the bible, greek mythology, etc. So why not read the real deal?