The gold standard
I knew my sister would nail it.
"...I wanted to comment on your list of criteria for great literature, so here it is:
That's a pretty tall list to live up to. I'm not sure any piece of literature I've read meets all of the criteria. But, then again, literature is not my primary source for reading material - I'm a history girl, through and through - so that's probably more an indication that I'm not as thoroughly read as I ought to be than it is that there's anything wrong with your list. I'm working on it, though. I'm reading Sense & Sensibility right now, and I'd say that it definitely takes care of #'s 3 and 7. I don't know. It's a great list, and it would be great if everything we read lived up to these standards. A part of me suspects that you wrote the list while considering the book you're currently reading. ;) Now that I think about it, Jane Eyre of course meets all of these requirements. I think it might be hard to find anything else that does."
"...I wanted to comment on your list of criteria for great literature, so here it is:
That's a pretty tall list to live up to. I'm not sure any piece of literature I've read meets all of the criteria. But, then again, literature is not my primary source for reading material - I'm a history girl, through and through - so that's probably more an indication that I'm not as thoroughly read as I ought to be than it is that there's anything wrong with your list. I'm working on it, though. I'm reading Sense & Sensibility right now, and I'd say that it definitely takes care of #'s 3 and 7. I don't know. It's a great list, and it would be great if everything we read lived up to these standards. A part of me suspects that you wrote the list while considering the book you're currently reading. ;) Now that I think about it, Jane Eyre of course meets all of these requirements. I think it might be hard to find anything else that does."
posted by Becky @ 9:11 PM
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