I had a bowl of gumbo at Gaido’s in Galveston with friends. One sent me home thinking about books. Melvyn is 91. He is a professor of medicine at the university, still teaching, still practicing. But he’s also an insightful reader.
He told us two things that stuck in mind.
He said he was making a point of reading writers he didn’t know. With age comes the tendency to prefer the familiar, and that tendency narrows your horizons.
He also said he always begins a new book after finishing the old one — he starts on the same day. That way, he’s always reading something. His mind is open, not idle. He’s learning.
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