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Whereas the way these things are taught normally in college and school is a sampler of what this one wrote and that one wrote and you’re asked to be more intere
by nicklaf 9y ago
Whereas the way these things are taught normally in college and school is a sampler of what this one wrote and that one wrote and you’re asked to be more interested in the date of the publication of Keat’s sonnets than in what’s in them.
So instead of reading this sample of Campbell's work of on Hacker News, I should be following the advice contained in it? But then the advice is to favor a single body of work over such samples! So had I followed his very advice too strictly, I would never have had the chance to read it in the first place!
Unless, of course, if I already knew about Campbell's work because he was one of the authors I chose to read thoroughly.
That all said, Edmund Burke did say: "Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods,choose both". So maybe: spend some time reading Hacker News, and most of it ignoring the web and other shallow sources entirely.