Harvard Prof Disses Great Books [by Walter Carey]

 

Last nght at the Wilson Trust Foundation, Professor Beryl Dunkelheit began their lecture on "Why We Read Great Books" with the a priori premise that we read them "to become a better person."

"But look at me, look at my colleagues. Are we better people? I think not."

QED.

But hold on. Who says we read books "to become a better person"? Is that way we read The Iliad? Sophocles? Rabelais? Boccaccio? King Lear? Macbeth? Machiavelli? Byron? Shelley? Wuthering Heights? Moby Dick? Joyce? Hemingway? 

-- Walter Carey

Comments

[Crazy Jane]

No brine before its time!

[Rosetta Stone]

Maybe he has drunk too much dunkel beer?

[Molly Arden]

Warum? Um gottes willen. Die frage?