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I think it's the book's position, Sion. It shouldn't be number 1. It shouldn't beat out the likes of Tolstoy, Joyce, and Austen. This list is clearly based on popularity. Potter and Ulysses on the same list blows my mind.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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