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I'm more to be pitied than inspire awe. But as they say about Mount Everest - why do I do it? Because they're there!

It is quite a challenge - some works by Xenophon, for instance were so obscure and out of print that I had to order second hand copies from remote bookstores across the globe. Demosthenes - whom I am reading after Aristotle - looks like my bookseller Rosy and I will have to track down using a pith helmet and torch! Something out of print in America - but we will get our orations or bust!

Of course it counts! I like to see how things develop - what comes after what, what might have influenced what. So reading over a year or decade is a bit like that too. Enjoy it - but watch out that you don't catch CDO!

Gentle readers, Sadly, I have CDO - which is like OCD - but with all of the letters in the correct alphabetical order - the way they should be! One tell-tale symptom is that many years ago I set myself the task of reading all of the [Penguin] classics in chronological order. Short story long - I started at the epic of Gilgamesh ~3000 BC and am currently working my way through the Complete works of Aristotle, ~384 BC having before read every major classic in between: Plato, Aristophones, Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Xenophon, Herodatus, Hindu Myths, Gathas of Zaroaster, The Bible, etc. Am I the only tragic bookworm with such a compulsive affliction/addiction - or are there other CDOs out there too? Please advise..