this is clearly going the way of my original_epub conversion arguments
but final fling/ attempt to explain.
if seems ( obviously in my own paranoia) that the author is implying : if you've not read the obscure book used for my epigraph you clearly don't have the right literary background to appreciate what comes next. Lifes too short to have to detour & read all that stuff.
so Carpe Diem, or
fish for dinner as we say here, and all that...
honesty test 2: what % of authors have actually read their epigraph sources , cover to cover, and what % just googled up something suitably academic looking ?
NON TIMETIS MESSOR