Happiness

In lieu of other posts (brewing, but not boiling), I present to you the List of Works (but is it a work, or a text? and where is the Meaning in all of this? or isn't there one?) sitting before me filled with the knowledge of their importance (or the importance of their knowledge?). In top to bottom order (incidentally, it is very pleasant not to be graded on what one is writing. I can stick in as many parentheticals as I jolly well please!):

Tristram (now I know where that name comes from! At least he's not Tramtris!) Shandy
(and speaking of which, H, somehow I walked off with your copy of) Le Morte D'Arthur
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Impressions of Theophrastus (where, I wonder, that one?) Such, George Eliot
The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius/ The Imitation of Christ, Thomas A Kempis/ Religio Medici, Thomas Browne
The Once and Future King, T. H. White
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
Browning and Italy
(and also, being read in between times--and in between innings at baseball games, although they really deserve a Sunday afternoon--,)
Collected Poems, T.S. Eliot
Selected Works of Robert Browning
Bring Me a Unicorn, A.M.L. (mine! my own, my--)
(Oh, that I had one of the many languages at the disposal of the previous authors for an intelligent and educated-sounding interjection of happiness)

Works I tried to get, but not there when N went to the Enid Library with my list:

The Divine Comedy, trans. Esolen or Sayers
Bleak House, Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo
The War of the Roses, Desmond Seward
The Iliad
and Unknown Books

Just finished All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren. A Fascinating and Gripping and Thinking and Imaginative sort of book, although anyone interested should also be warned that it contains some objectionable content and a good deal of objectionable language. But it re-inspired (good or bad) my love of Reading to the Exclusion of All Else (When my mother saw N return from the library, she said "Oh, no.")

Also intending to re-read (much slower and more thoroughly) history and philosophy sorts of books.

This sounds very ambitious (notice, I haven't touched the more-so ones yet),

But where shall I begin? And what should I presume?

(does anyone have any suggestions? for what to read Next? or additions or subtractions or multiplications or vectors or mathematical sorts of things to do to my list? I want the Right One.) In the meantime, I sit and looook at them, with a similar expression to that inspired by Dr. Pepper, nectar divine (and not even by Lord Goring, or others who shall rename mainless).