>This thread has piled up more arrant nonsense, and some of it from
>really sensible people, than I ever dreamed could be clustered in one
>small batch of e-mail posts could possibly contain.
>
>The lies of the Bush administration pale into insignificance in
>comparison to these posts.
>
>I suggest that each of the posters should be condemned to 10 years in
>solitary with four books which they must endlessly reread for 12 hours
>out of every day.
>
>Our Mutual Friend
>Dombey and Son
>Bleak House
>The Charterhouse of Parma
>
>And at the end of those 10 years they must either come up with a 10,000
>page dissertation proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that the culture
>portrayed in those works is superior to the culture of Lansing,
>Michigan.
These are 19C novels, before mass education and the advent of modern "democracy." Why are these a valid comparison to the society of 2005?
Doug