Monday, November 24, 2008

Wisdom and Literature

The arts have a future when you actually have a critic argue that the reason why we should study literature is because it is full of wisdom.

2 comments:

John said...

"[T]he journey toward self-understanding can be rough... the world is a perpetual insult to our self-importance... the examined life can only be lived under the sign of death"

And here I thought I already knew everything and was going to live forever. Thanks for ruining Thanksgiving, Troy.

Troy Camplin said...

Why, it's almost as if the very soul of the arts was tragedy . . .