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It’s pretty wild that Hamlet was written between 1599 and 1601. Shakespeare was just like “oh yea it’s modernity now, guess I should produce the definitive literary treatment of the disoriented modern subject.”

Are people stupid or is everyone just on board with the dishonest language? Noor, if this tech had been around when your mom was conceived, she would not have existed!!

it depends entirely on the purpose of the list, but including it in a “great books”-style school curriculum, let alone a university one, is an enormous pedagogical mistake, for reasons that ought to be obvious as soon as you think about what a literary curriculum is for

it is a mythic fantasy story whose system of values is modern, articulated in way that's transparent to modern readers. classroom time is much better used on literature that demands support precisely because its values and ideas are not modern or not so transparent

One thing Idiocracy got wrong, is apparently there will still be “smart people”, but they will be computers puking out what is effectively gibberish, which they think is intellectual because nobody understand what words mean anymore.

I think opening questions don’t necessarily have to be explicit questions about the text, but can be asking the reading group to join you in an activity: close reading of a portion of the text, the questions will naturally come… Catherine Project The Divine Comedy, 33 weeks

People on here will literally invent whole new metaphysical theories to justify being upset when their spouses sleep in

It's self-involved. There are an infinity of insights like this. Let readers find them for themselves.

These urges should be indulged

Yes. My heart would soften considerably if I heard more AI examples like this.

Zena Hitz Relaying the words of Walter Cook, the head of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts’s, quip, Panofsky quotes: “Hitler is my best friend; he shakes the tree and I gather the apples.”

Zena Hitz In high school some friends and I used to shout poems at total strangers. My favorite was “Some say the world will end in fire …” by Frost.

Ivana Greco Zena Hitz I saw someone reading Dune on the DC metro so I got on the escalator right behind him and began intoning “Fear is the mind killer…” Weirdly we did not become friends, as I had expected!

Lost and miserable, poorer than he ever expected to be, he embarks on a search for meaning, beginning with the MA program in liberal arts St. John's College

Matthew Walther If you take for granted your students are already readers and thinkers, it's good to toss out tidbits. But if you want to shape them into readers and thinkers, you have to leave them to their own devices.

Otherwise, they become tourists -- thinking that the tidbit is the learning itself, and not just one of the millions of things you might see if you read and thought a lot.