and i read gunther gras. i don't know any other gunther writers. [laughter] the important thing was suddenly i was reading what i wanted to read. that was heavy stuff, i but that's what i wanted to read. i wanted to read difficult plays and poetry and difficult writers. and that's how i fell in love with reading. because up to that point, i wasn't a big reader. i was a decent reader, i was a good reader, but somehow in grade school and high school it just didn't turn on for me. and, you know, in those days the typical, the english class you'd come in, read the first 40 pages of king lear. you'll be tested tomorrow. read middle march. read lady chatterly's lover. now, they never asked us to read that. [laughter] that one i would have wanted to read. and the result was, we have to do this now with common core and some things that help in some ways and don't in others, i didn't get turned on to reading, i didn't get turned on to writing. let me go back to shakespeare for just a second, the king lear thing. once again, when i'm growing up, you know, we