May 15, 2023:
If the Cambridge Companions had existed 20 years earlier they'd have transformed my education. They provide the contexts and level of detail missing from limited University resources — Philosophy Prof, Literature Prof. In a certain nontrivial way I feel I'm only just now receiving my appropriate undergraduate education, as the Companions provide answers or at least point to answers to the key questions college was unable to resolve: dialectics, tragedy, historical and intellectual contexts.
So that I want to stop the rest of life, freeze time, hit Pause, immerse myself in 30 more books before again pressing Play. I feel I would then, at such long last, be properly equipped.