From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   It happens that VD formulated :   
   > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:46:54 -0400, John M. wrote:   
      
   >> "Chan Welbourne"  wrote in message   
   >> news:j11mn1$60c$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>> John M. submitted this idea :   
   >>>> "Sirius Black"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:j11mh6$4jt$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:34:56 -0400, John M. wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Depends on what school you choose and what options to the curriculum, I   
   >>>>>> received my English literary background in undergraduate school.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Tennessee grad here. And you?   
   >>>   
   >>>> Virginia, Univ of Chicago, graduated with a B.S.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
      
   > Either at some point in the past, present or future, the Bible has,   
   > did, or will lose this claim. I offer that the Bible in the Western   
   > World dominated by Christianity still is.   
      
   > Harry Potter has the best shot at universal dominance as the shared   
   > text since its distribution is biblical in scale, de-Babelized and   
   > non-geographic.   
      
   "de-Bablized". You made that up. >:|   
      
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