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To: nihil who wrote (37029)	5/7/1999 8:15:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

>I can assure you that there is no general cultural literacy exam at the end of life which one must pass or ever be condemned to rub ghastly elbows with hoi polloi.< Imho this misses the point a little. Literacy and "culturacy" are for the body of our lives, not for the end or what might follow. So - what nonfiction works would you add to the Literacy List?

To: nihil who wrote (37029)	5/7/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

That's fine. I disagree. So what?

To: nihil who wrote (37029)	5/7/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.

To: nihil who wrote (37029)	5/7/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Oh, nihil, come on, it was my list, and I was just joshing. I don't really have a list that I think every educated person should have read. I am sure that you have read far and wide, and I know that I have, but I am far from being as well educated as I would like to be. >>>>>I can assure you that there is no general cultural literacy exam at the end of life which one must pass or ever be condemned to rub ghastly elbows with hoi polloi<<<<< And so you can assure me, but can you prove it?