Lit Crit

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 7499

I really enjoyed reading what Ebony and Caius and Pam wrote, (and what
Alicia-Sue and Amanda and Scott and so on wrote about having to take
horrible Lit classes) and I might even wish that Pam hadn't deleted part
of her message just because it was OT.

But I REALLY wish someone had answered my question about 'What good is
it?'

That is my serious question. It's not intended as an attack. I want
answers.

Catlady  cried from her heart:
> It doesn't teach us why some stories are  objects of beauty that take
one's
> breath away and last 'forever' and why other stories are loved in one
era and
> considered unreadable garbage by other eras. And it doesn't teach us
anything
> about the human condition: not about honor, not about envy, not about
battle
> fatigue....
> Which is working up to, somewhere in this post, I will ask you what
is that
> lit-crit stuff good for?

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