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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: nihil who wrote (37029)5/7/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
nihil, there is a damn good reason for reading the Bible, quite apart from its religious message, and also for reading the Iliad & the Odyssey & The Etc., quite apart from their intrinsic literary merits.

It is that much of English poetry (and of the poetry of many other European languages) is inaccessible without a knowledge of the Bible & of Greek mythology. (One more argument in favor of a "common core of culture".)

But of course, if you care as little for poetry as you evidently do for fiction (and for philosophy as well, it would seem), then there is no hope for you...<g>

What subject do you teach anyway, nihil? Something practical, no doubt?

Joan

P.S. I also find Augustine nauseating, by the way. But his malign ideas have been so influential that IMO it pays to stifle the gag impulse and read him.

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