Sunday, May 3, 2020

Traditionally, burning books in the street was the revolutionary way of eradicating the past in order to usher in some Utopian fantasy.
But the modern revolution has no need of fire, for our modern mindset has made the language of the past so repugnant to our sensibility that we simply ignore the literature of the past on grounds of "out-datedness".

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