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Thomas Pynchon: Is It O.K. To Be a Luddite?
- gabrielsroka 4y ago1984
- uglycoyote 4y agoThere were some paragraphs of the history of luddites that I found fascinating, but when the article turned in to a book review of Frankenstein, he lost me unfortunately.
- amadeuspagel 4y ago> Except maybe for Brainy Smurf, it's hard to imagine anybody these days wanting to be called a literary intellectual, though it doesn't sound so bad if you broaden the labeling to, say, "people who read and think." Everyone reads and thinks. The reason no one wants to be called a literary intellectual is precisely that it signifies the kind of person who thinks that reading and thinking makes them part of some distinguished elite.