He could still seem to read him faster. His writing seemed simpler. One day, when he was nearing the end of them, like *John Barleycorn* and *The Cruise of the Elsinore*, he read five in one day. Of them all, he liked *Before Adam* and *The Star Rover* the best because for the first time they gave him a clear picture of what Malloy had meant by reincarnation of souls. He thought he could see now how there could just as easily be an evolution of souls in different bodies, just like there had been an evolution of bodies in different souls from prehistoric times like Redeye and those mentioned in *Before Adam*. It seemed logical to him. At least, it did when he was drunk.
It was while he was reading *Martin Eden* that he got the idea to start writing down titles of other books to read, like Martin had done. There were lots of them in London. Most of them he had never heard of. A few he had heard Malloy mention. He wrote down all of them, with the author’s name, in the little notebook he had had Alma buy for him. He would look at the growing list as proudly as if it was a Presidential Citation. Before he was done, he would read them all. The next time he ran into Jack Malloy, he would be able to talk back instead of just listen.
He did the same thing with a Thomas Wolfe book that Alma brought home on a hunch, writing them down in his notebook as he came across them. But when he had finished that one, he found he had so many titles of books he wanted to read that it would take him at least a year of doing absolutely nothing else.
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