Classics are highly addictive texts that, once you taste their flavor, you cannot help but seek them out again. Most classics are works we learned as part of our school curriculum. However, most of them are known only intellectually, without being felt in the heart. For reasons unknown, the classics learned in school are imprinted upon us with a reverence akin to a religious faith, leaving them somehow as something too distant to approach. As the saying goes, "a late-learned thief doesn't