danny heitman. in the wall street journal. you wrote a column entitled i'm revisiting the books of my youth. why are you doing that. well, peter, i'm revisiting the books of my youth, basically based on my rediscovery of my norton anthology of american literature. that i used as a college freshman college student in 1982. and as you can see, it's really born the year. it's now held together with some duct tape and basically, in the course of cleaning out my house and tidying things up, i decided i'm going to take this old book from the shelf and i'm going to repair it in the course of repairing it. i reconnected with some of the wisdom that was and it wisdom that, to be frank, was not well received when i was a freshman college student because quite frankly, i was too young to really appreciate what writers like henry david thoreau or ralph waldo emerson or emily dickinson had to tell me. so in reconnecting with that as an older person, i realized that a lot of the literature really resonates. as you add more birthdays, as i h