Extollager
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Yale English students call for end of focus on white male writers
Thank you. You have motivated me to begin a rereading today of Paradise Lost.
As for yourselves, surely you do not need to run up vast expenses (granted, the money is probably someone else's, not your own) to study things about which you have already made up your minds, or rather, as deep inhalers of the atmosphere of the age, had your minds made up for you.
Your profound incuriosity about other times and understandings is remarkable. Evidently you suppose either that you already know Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and others so well that you need not concern yourselves with them; or you suppose that they have nothing to say to people who think as you do. That latter possibility might be true, but if so it is not true in a sense that is flattering to you.
Allow me to suggest, Yale students of English, that, if you really are moved by the troubles of the groups you specify, you donate the money that would have gone into your education in programs and action that really help, e.g. charter schools in impoverished neighborhoods.
With impatient best wishes.
Thank you. You have motivated me to begin a rereading today of Paradise Lost.
As for yourselves, surely you do not need to run up vast expenses (granted, the money is probably someone else's, not your own) to study things about which you have already made up your minds, or rather, as deep inhalers of the atmosphere of the age, had your minds made up for you.
Your profound incuriosity about other times and understandings is remarkable. Evidently you suppose either that you already know Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and others so well that you need not concern yourselves with them; or you suppose that they have nothing to say to people who think as you do. That latter possibility might be true, but if so it is not true in a sense that is flattering to you.
Allow me to suggest, Yale students of English, that, if you really are moved by the troubles of the groups you specify, you donate the money that would have gone into your education in programs and action that really help, e.g. charter schools in impoverished neighborhoods.
With impatient best wishes.
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