tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post262064163524498495..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: 'Imminence of a Revelation As Yet Unproduced'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-75881362883668519992020-07-09T18:03:30.958-05:002020-07-09T18:03:30.958-05:00After I retired from a certain small public univer...After I retired from a certain small public university, the curriculum was revised. You can get a BA in English from it having taken, for your literature requirement, no more than 5 3-credit courses. If they were all offered in the same semester you could knock off the literature component & still have time left over.Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-42299300890654625022020-07-09T09:52:50.102-05:002020-07-09T09:52:50.102-05:00I once had hope that the Harry Potter phenomenon w...I once had hope that the Harry Potter phenomenon would start some younger people on the path to reading other and better things, much as my reading of adolescent books and magazines gave me a hearty appetite for more substantive books and ideas. Alas... There is little more depressing to me than to see what has happened to my local library, where thousands of books were sold for a dollar or two and the stacks shrunk to half their length. Very few read. No one cares. Thank you again for your nearly heroic efforts to promote good reading (and thinking).Edward Bauerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14234329254784727525noreply@blogger.com