On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Incidentally, during the 18 years Jan worked at the post office, the most
> interesting conversationalist and alert intelligence she met there had read
> only one book in his life, Pearl Buck's Good Earth in high school. There is
> an ocean of satire going back to the late 17th-c on reading much and gaining
> nothing.
It always strikes me as weird when a guy who devoted his professional life to Milton and Pound says that literacy doesn't really matter much.
Doug