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To: The Philosopher who wrote (36926)	5/7/1999 5:00:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 108807

I would say that expecting another person to have read Jane Austen, Homer, Virgil, Plato, St. Augustine, and Aristotle is not snobbish, nor elitist. How could an educated person not have read Persuasion, nor Pride and Prejudice? I expect an educated person to have read Aesop's Fables. I expect an educated person to have read some Dickens. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. Madame Bovary. I would say you were an elitist snob if you expected the other person to have read Martial, Tacitus, or Boethius. I am not sure whether Euripedes, Ovid, Plutarch and Cicero would be considered essential.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (36926)	5/7/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I agree with Blue, Christopher, that it is not "snobbish elitism" on your part to expect people to have read basic classics. Besides, in every literate society in modern times, at least, there has been a distinction between High Culture and Low Culture. Someone has to stand up for, and preserve, High Culture! And it might as well be you! <g> One thing saddens me, however. When the high-minded do-gooders of yore in Britain worked to bring literacy to the working class, they dreamed of the days when the downtrodden proletariat would be able to read Shakespeare....It probably never occurred to them that many working stiffs (and scions of the bourgeoisie as well) might prefer TV Guide. Joan