The Narthex
Random Ruminations #6
A New Thack(eray) on the Dumbing Down of Reading and Culture... Or Just Rewrite the Guy
By John M. Grondelski | August 18th 2023 1:56 PMA New Thack(eray) on the Dumbing Down of Reading and Culture In a recent Facebook post, Joe Bottum commented on a 1915 lecture in which the speaker threw around multiple literary allusions to William Makepeace Thackeray’s characters as if they were obvious to everyone. Truth is, a lot of them…
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