When you embark on reading an ordinary article, you have no way of knowing how many things it will tell you.
The novelist George Gissing (1857-1903), who quitted formal education at the same age as Mr Corbyn, was a terrifying polymath who spent his leisure reading the classics and philosophy, and embarked on feats of reading that would leave his modern-day equivalents ashamed by their lack of intellectual frills.
I have embarked on serious reading to achieve that goal.
That reception crossed over to the U.S. and Canada, where Bunting embarked on a reading tour and was given teaching posts, congratulations from the Wisconsin State Legislature, and the reverence of such younger poets as Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg, who called Bunting "the best poet alive, of the old folks".
He embarked on a close reading of Genesis and found as many ambiguities and contradictions as revealed truths.
Late last year, as an extra layer of insulation against a severe London winter, I embarked on a project of reading in French the novels I had devoured so eagerly in translation, and which I felt had helped form me. I picked up Camus's book again, only this time in a compact Livre de Poche, dated 1963.
Recently I embarked on a mission to read and review the most terrible works of literature ever written.
This alliterative affliction is named after the wizarding school in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, and is suffered by children embarking on marathon reading sessions of the 870-page "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
The singer Paul Simon briefly recalled meeting Mr. Heaney in Dublin in 1991, before embarking on a reading of "Casting and Gathering," a dramatization of the contest between between the voice in an artist's head that creates and the voice that says "you're no good," as Mr. Simon put it later, delivered with hand-waving and jazzy rhythms.
By mid-November, Carolyn had taken a job in the cafeteria of the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, while Gus had embarked on an effort to learn to read.
Now in his bedwear, sitting down to eat, Dad told me he was embarked on a "five-year reading plan".
