Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 10/14/19: I was told by third parties it was the best undergraduate fiction he'd ever read.

I was told by third parties it was the best undergraduate fiction he'd ever read.

So?

Who was he? What guidance could he provide? Why should his opinion be respected?

Granted my goals it was profoundly the wrong place. Yet given the state of my brain and its chemistry there could have been no realistic alternative.