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The article showed a postage stamp bearing Samuel Clemens' visage, but didn't include his relevant quote: "A classic is a book that everybody wants to have read
by khafra 16y ago
The article showed a postage stamp bearing Samuel Clemens' visage, but didn't include his relevant quote: "A classic is a book that everybody wants to have read, but nobody wants to read."
- ahoyhere 16y agoYes. Additionally: lots of people aspire to be well-read, but disagree with her choices. As far as I can tell, they're all fiction. She doesn't list Michel de Montaigne, Thoreau, Emerson, William James, or other authors of "classics" that I would consider to be required to be considered "well-read."
- brudgers 16y agoNo Descartes, Augustine, Plato, Homer, etc. either - It's a bit of an English major's list, and with no one like Richard Wright, Jose Saramogo or V.S. Naipaul it lacks enough when it comes diversity of viewpoints to raise the question, Is being well read as valuable as being widely read?
- ahoyhere 16y agoNone of it matters if it doesn't lead you to be a more thoughtful, flexible, inquisitive, humble, introspective person.