what dose the sentence mean?(explain it with the simplest words)Thank you.
" On his deadthbed, Dr. Johnson- once canonical, now more admired than read-- is supposed to have said to a friend who was energetically rearranging his bedclothes, "Thank you, this will do all that a pillow can do."One might say that the canon debaters are all asking of their handful of chosen books that they do a great deal more than any handful of books can do. "I made a mistake .Explain the English sentence in English.

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what dose the sentence mean?(explain it with the simplest words)Thank you.
 " On his deadthbed, Dr. Johnson- once canonical, now more admired than read-- is supposed to have said to a friend who was energetically rearranging his bedclothes, "Thank you, this will do all that a pillow can do."One might say that the canon debaters are all asking of their handful of chosen books that they do a great deal more than any handful of books can do.  "I made a mistake .Explain the English sentence in English.

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is supposed to have said to a friend who was energetically rearranging his bedclothes,

His friend was putting clothes from one place to another. 

 "Thank you, this will do all that a pillow can do.   - very strange sentence

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" On his deadthbed, Dr. Johnson- once canonical, now more admired than read

" On his deadthbed - I guess that it does mean: when he was dying.We often say in russian literally" on the bed of death" 

Once his books were canonical which I guess means that it was necessary to read and then he as an author was more admired by people than his books, his works

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