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To: LouieFisk

I will take that as a yes, that you believe that reading Robinson Crusoe is as much a waste of time as reading a modern day comic.


25 posted on 03/05/2022 6:21:27 PM PST by Jonty30 (How can you claim to help me with my healthcare costs when you can't pay for your own?)
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To: Jonty30

Not quite, it’s just a absurd comparison. Like the movie, it’s a fun little diversion - especially for younger minds.

But I suspect Dickens, Shakespeare, Homer, Proust, Tolstoy and the like really don’t need to worry a whole lot about competition.

People historically quite usually think their period’s passing cultural ephemera to have surpassed sliced bread in greatness and importance - just a common, normal human temporal-based prejudice.


35 posted on 03/05/2022 6:43:59 PM PST by LouieFisk
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