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A nice quote by Plunkett from the interview: > There’s a cultural association between the time of exposure and the level of sophistication. You’d sound pretty
by jonahx 2y ago
A nice quote by Plunkett from the interview:
> There’s a cultural association between the time of exposure and the level of sophistication. You’d sound pretty vulgar if you said, Oh, yeah, I learned to play Bach when I was thirteen—that’s easy stuff. But people really do make pronouncements like that about literature. Someone I met a few years ago, a big poetry person, just could not believe that an adult would spend years of his life thinking about Robert Frost. To her it seemed like doing a Ph.D. in simple algebra.
Also, article title is a rare exception to Betteridge's law.
- josefritzishere 2y agoGold star for Betteridge's law refernece.
- lupire 2y ago> Also, article title is a rare exception to Betteridge's law. Sort of. "Even" is a kind of sarcastic/negative word, so the question is asking "Robert Frost is a bad poet, right?"
- jonahx 2y agoHuh, nice observation. The suggestion implied by the question is false.