I find it necessary on the first page of this book, quite ready for publication, to give the following advice:
Firstly: at least as you have already become mechanized to read all your contemporary books and newspapers.
Secondly: as if you were reading aloud to another person.
And only thirdly: try and fathom the gist of my writings.
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)