[lbo-talk] RE: literacy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Oct 20 06:43:57 PDT 2003


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Williams traces it back in English poetry to
> Piers Plowman. Maybe it has been a relentless downward spiral since
> the 13th century, but I doubt it.
>

Have you forgotten your Iliad & Aeneid, and that lifting of rocks such as no ten men could lift in these degererate days?

I really hate nostalgia. Especially nostalgia based merely on personal experience extended to a nation of nearly 200 million or so.

Carrol


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