Tim Sterne on reading to your baby:
She's well, but not taking any interest in literature as yet. I was reading her an Isaiah Berlin essay other day, and she seemed to enjoy it, so maybe the history of ideas is more her thing. Or maybe she was just humouring me.
Here are some other books he might like to read to his baby:
David Copperfield
War and Peace (in the original Russian)
Shakespeare's Macbeth (in the original Russian translation)
The Old Testament
The New Testament
The In-Between Testament
The Postmodern Testament (the smash hit sequel to God's bestselling thriller New Testament)
GOD, by Mr S.Atan de Ville
Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems (one poem per night, printed on tissue paper, and lain ever-so-gently under their pillows. By their second birthday, they will have absorbed more poetry than some people will have in their lifetimes.)
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Margaret Fulton's Guide to Home Cooking (Sung in a minor key, in rhyming couplets, with a penguin under each arm)
William Shakespeare's Margaret Fulton's Guide to Home Cooking (a little known work by the master playwright, translating Fulton's 20th century Australian English into 16th century English-English).
Ulysses (Through the wrong end of a gramophone, standing on a llama on a mountaintop, reciting it in German with an Irish accent, or Irish with a German accent)
Hamlet
Euclid's Theorems (Told to your baby through the medium of interpretative dance).
Sun Tzu's Art of War
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Backwards, thank you very much. The final volume, Zossiumus - Zzarbok is grossly neglected.)
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2 comments:
My dad read me the Screwtape Letters when I was six.
Explains everything.
Ha! At least he didn't read to you The Problem of Pain or Mere Christianity. No-one would be able to overcome that sort of trauma ...
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