Diary entry

DIARY  10 March 2016

I heard good things about the 16^th century French essayist Montaigne, about his being easy to read and detesting cruelty as if he were in the 21^st century. Borrowed his complete Essays, a fat library paperback, but it was overwhelming. Despite my worries about selected works (see this blog), Montaigne’s The Essays: A Selection, edited by M.A. Screech, is better. Less is more.. I have  more strength  to consider his multitudinous views on cats, Roman tyrants and almost everything else. For someone who died more than four centuries ago he is, as the Editor says, ‘utterly readable’.