Thursday, August 31, 2006

Yes, English Majors Are Just A Bunch Of Layabouts With No Talent Or Direction, Not Nerds Who Just Like To Read

English needs to be harder. Apparently, these kids today (me included) just don't have it rough enough for Sir Frank Kermode (who I've never heard of, despite his being really big or something in Britain). In his day, English majors had to walk uphill both ways while reading Dostoyevsky and compose an essay on the poetry of Alexander Pope.

(Via Bookninja)