> 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 bro

> 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.