From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   Sirius Black formulated on Saturday :   
   > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:56:15 -0400, Wilford Dumont wrote:   
      
   >> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:54:41 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>>>>>> You will have to talk to Victor Dix about Allen Bloom at UC, I hear   
   >>>>>>>>> he  was   
   >>>>>>>>> a terror. :o)   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Dr. Bloom was a superior educator, a Great Text advocate. Funny   
   >>>>>>>> enough,  it   
   >>>>>>>> was one of his ideas which drew me to Harry Potter and that was the   
   >>>>>>>> idea  of   
   >>>>>>>> the shared text. As far as I can see, Harry Potter is the shared text   
   >>>>>>>> universally.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Universally and unilaterally regardless of educational background.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> No way. What about English majors?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I see "unilaterally" challenges you.   
   >>>> Story goes that Dr. Bloom almost always asked his English literature   
   >>>> majors  what was their shared text. They rarely had one in the post modern   
   >>>> era.   
   >>>   
   >>> It used to be the Bible but I don't know of but a few who have read it   
   >>> end to end these days.   
   >>   
   >> Pre-1960 there were a couple of others that were part of the social   
   >> noir.   
      
   > How about Animal Farm or 1984, there has to be something every Eng Lit   
   > major has read.   
      
   You would think but that's not the case. High schools and universities   
   differed as to what texts are required to be read/studied. Rarely did   
   everyone across the unilateral universe ( of Wil Dumont l-)  ) have a   
   common text.   
      
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