As a rule, careful writers are careful readers and vice versa.   A careful writer wants to be read carefully.  He cannot know what it means to be read carefully but by having done careful reading himself.  Reader precedes writer.  We read before we write.  We learn to write by reading.  –Leo Strauss, Persecution and the … Continue reading Wink, Wink! Walter Benjamin’s Childhood Secret and His Prophetic Calling to Schlemieldom