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I'm in the middle of rereading Seneca's letters. I first read Seneca's letters when I was in college about letters of a stoke, a pen and classics edition.

It's sort of been 2006, 2007. And I've rereaded a bunch of times now. I'm actually in the middle of going through this one. This is a new translation for me. This is the low edition.

And the reason I'm rereading it is that it's been a while since I read it. And I wanted to go back to something that it'd been so influential to me.

There's this great line. It actually appears in Marx Realist's Meditation. He says, no man steps in the same river twice. And the idea being that although it's the same book, I've changed. The world has changed.

Even in the 10 years, maybe a little bit how people see Seneca has changed. And so I'm getting all sorts of new things from it. So you can look at my notes here. All these different pages. I folded all these pages. It's filled with writing.

You wouldn't think it would be filled with writing and observations given that I've already read it, given that I've written books about Seneca.

But I'm getting something new out of it. And that's really the importance of rereading. And Seneca himself, he talks about this in one of the early letters which I was just rereading.

He talks about how he's suspicious of people who read only very widely who sort of flit from book to book. He's saying that you actually have to sort of dwell on a number of master thinkers.

And that the more times you read them, the deeper you go into the material, the more that sort of gets absorbed into your system and the more ideally is the whole point of reading and philosophy is to turn words into works.

So if you're just accumulating as much words as many words as possible, you're not doing it. It's about training. It's about muscle memories, about absorbing it into your soul.

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