Asked another, smiling but serious, “How can we become better writers than we are?” “Well,” DB advised, for starters, read through the whole history of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics up through last semester. That might help.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Asked another, smiling but serious, “How can we become better writers than we are?” “Well,” DB advised, for starters, read through the whole history of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics up through last semester. That might help." in the context of "Donald Barthelme, in Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995 quoted by John Barth in p. 261." to mean that wisdom is timeless.