[lbo-talk] Butler on Butler

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jun 5 11:52:36 PDT 2008


Chris Doss wrote:
>
> Well, you may have, but did you understand it? I read
> the Divine Comedy when I was 13 and thought it had
> cool demons and tortures and stuff, but understand it?
> I didn't have the educational background to do so.

Both "understand" and "educational background" are rather slippery concepts: The same could be said at some level of both Grandgent & Singleton! What's wrong, or relevant to anything, of superfaicial understandings of books?

Carrol



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