Sunday, August 02, 2015

Faulkner's offensive books

There is a key lesson here, one I’ve seen time and again in over 40 years of teaching: What we condemn today may be prized tomorrow; what we praise today may look silly in a hundred years. Andthere is another lesson as well: Books show us where we have been, and, morecrucially, what it felt like to be there.

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