tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post6720250523901772094..comments2024-03-16T13:54:59.016-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `A Man of Capricious Culture'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-41905977810587437632009-05-15T05:40:00.000-05:002009-05-15T05:40:00.000-05:00Yes, one reason i'm glad to have been repeated...Yes, one reason i'm glad to have been repeatedly rejected for PhD funding - i just don't have the willpower to read dull books, which is part & parcel of being an academic, that you don't just read Milton but the latest books ABOUT Milton, and of course anything Milton may have read - even if you're only really interested in Milton. i can't do that. i enjoy reading too much to read according to a method, for a set purpose, grinding at the mill. In any case i don't think you need to have read in this methodical systematic way to come up with good work. Indeed, it often seems to help if you haven't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-79541226048376035692009-05-11T20:19:00.000-05:002009-05-11T20:19:00.000-05:00Especially with regard to your final three sentenc...Especially with regard to your final three sentences -- Amen, brother.Jared Carterhttp://www.jaredcarter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-37024555504328159042009-05-11T16:51:00.000-05:002009-05-11T16:51:00.000-05:00I appreciate the quote and your overall point - ju...I appreciate the quote and your overall point - just want to point out that the professor doesn't give a road map for how to become "immensely learned" (I don't see an implication that reading the complete works of Dante, Milton, Swift and Johnson across a lifetime would have changed anything about Beckett). It seems most clear that Beckett could have chosen to have risen to whatever level would be appropriate to be "immensely learned," and I agree that this doesn't seem like anything to aspire too...MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05028730734443751295noreply@blogger.com