The beginning of Infinity reminds me the most of Gordelesshire Bach as a book in that it's very wide-ranging.

It's stitches together ideas from many different disciplines.

It's very difficult to understand and follow completely.

Everyone claims to have read it, but as far as I can tell, very few people understand it,

I had this experience in college where I first found Gordelesshire Bach.

And I remember that I put on my bookshelf and I started reading it and I started reading it and started reading it.

And about a year later, I was probably about halfway through it.

And then I just ran out of time, other things going on.

And I remember that I would approach my other friends in college and I would say,

either this is a great book, you should read it or I would say, have you read it?

And they'd all say, yeah, yeah, that's great.

And a week later, they'd roll back and say, yeah, Gordelesshire Bach, it was great.

And I felt like the stupidest person in college.

And it was only years later that everybody has read it.

As you get older, you get more confident in those confessionals where you either say,

either I didn't read it or I read it at a constant pace.

And when I encountered something, I didn't understand, I kept going.

I went back much later and I still confess to this day I've not read all of Gordelesshire Bach.

But at least at this point, I went through and I found the parts that were most interesting to me,

which were the Gordel parts and skipped the ones that were not as interesting to me,

which were the Bach parts.

And I did read those and I did try and understand them.

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