"I, like you, started life with poetry, mostly devouring my father’s very extensive literary library. I came quite late to philosophy, which is just as well since the philosophical work of brash and clever young philosophers can be quite callow — a kind of virtuosity without real understanding or depth. " -Prof. Akeel Bilgrami in an email to me authorizing my narration of his landmark work, "Self-Knowledge and Resentment"