Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and as always thank you for listening.

I want to say David that my book Bring out your dead the literature and history of pandemics is now out as a Kindle book, both in physical book form and also electronic form. It's an instant book. I wrote it over the past two months while being sequestered here in North Dakota and I wrote about half

of it about the history and literature of pandemics which is a fascinating and

somewhat problematic subject and then the second half is called the joy of reading in a distracted time

because never before have I had this much time simply to read great books and I

thought I would write a little bit about why reading is such a deep human

comfort and what it is meant to me. So there are chapters on dictionaries, on how I learn to read, on the problem of

skipping ahead, on people who mark up their books and the others who find that appalling

and particularly about the zone when we get into that moment I know you know it when you could you're reading and suddenly you slip into some sort of nearly altered state and you realize that this is A pure happiness and B you could read forever

that this is this is what you live for is that moment when the words are just sort

of jumping through the page right into your consciousness.

This may be a bit off topic, but you've led me there, so here we are.

Reading, I'm in the midst of a book recommended to me by my favorite reader called Underland, a Deep Time Journey.

It's written by Robert McFarland.

Are you familiar with it?

Underland, no, tell us about it.

The reason I bring it up is there's a chapter in the book about

Paris and some of this took place during Jefferson's time in Paris it it seems

that there was a very desirable limestone that for building that Paris was built on top of and they

quarried it for like 600 years and this led to sinkholes parts of the city kind of just disappearing.

In fact, a huge one in 1774 that took pavement and houses and horses and carts and people.

And after that, the government got involved and attempted some kind of

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