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@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ hope at this point in your education you'll have learned to be a guarded reader
 even of authoritative treatises by eminent authors. So you shouldn't need any
 Wikipedia-specific warnings.
 
+For most readers, many bits of reading we point you to will be hairy in one way
+or another. It may be aimed at audiences with more programming experience; it
+may be aimed at audiences with specific logical background you don't yet have;
+it may be aimed at audiences familiar with technical areas in linguistics you're
+first encountering. Or perhaps several of these at once. We hope you will
+already have mastered the skill of leveraged reading: getting what you can out
+of an article you don't fully understand, so that you can discuss it with the rest of
+the group and hopefully get to a point where you can read it again and
+get more out of out. (Rinse and repeat.)
+
+
 ## General issues about variables and binding in programming languages ##
 
 *	[[!wikipedia Variable (programming)]]
@@ -37,19 +48,19 @@ Wikipedia-specific warnings.
 
 ## Untyped lambda calculus and combinatory logic ##
 
-*	[[!wikipedia Lambda calculus]]  
+*	[[!wikipedia Lambda calculus]]<p>
 *	[[!wikipedia Haskell Curry]]
 *	[[!wikipedia Moses Schönfinkel]]
-*	[[!wikipedia Alonzo Church]]  
+*	[[!wikipedia Alonzo Church]]<p>
 *	[[!wikipedia Combinatory logic]]
 *	[[!wikipedia B,C,K,W system]]
-*	[[!wikipedia SKI combinatory calculus]]  
+*	[[!wikipedia SKI combinatory calculus]]<p>
 *	[[!wikipedia Church-Rosser theorem]]
 *	[[!wikipedia Normalization property]]
-*	[[!wikipedia Turing completeness]]  
+*	[[!wikipedia Turing completeness]]<p>
 *	[[!wikipedia Church encoding]]
-*	[[!wikipedia Y combinator]]  
-*	[[!wikipedia Curry-Howard isomorphism]]  
+*	[[!wikipedia Y combinator]]<p>
+*	[[!wikipedia Curry-Howard isomorphism]]<p>
 *	[[!wikipedia Evaluation strategy]]
 *	[[!wikipedia Eager evaluation]]
 *	[[!wikipedia Lazy evaluation]]