Posted on 10/13/2016 12:17:06 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary
That is sad. Victor Davis Hanson (I think) said something similar in a recent column. After the fall of Rome, various barbarian takeovers resulted in the French, Spanish, and Italian languages, which eventually re-flourished, so to speak, as vehicles of literature. Now we see the same decline in English, but it’s harder to imagine that the “language” of Facebook and Twitter will ever generate the equivalents of Gibbon, Churchill, or Tolkien.
And on this trend, there’s the Nobel Prize in Literature for Bob Dylan. Care to wager on how long it will be before a “graphic novelist” wins? (My 18-year-old favors Gerard Way, former lead singer of My Chemical Romance. One could despair!)
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