Does that translate into 'Hobbes was a very bright bastard, so if you want get the 'good oil' on the matter then read him first' ? Reckon he's widely read else

Does that translate into 'Hobbes was a very bright bastard, so if you want get the 'good oil' on the matter then read him first' ? Reckon he's widely read elsewhere too - I'm definitely not one of them - so with others also in the 'know' then they may not have had such an advantage. Perhaps it was something else, something in their drinking water perhaps? ;-)