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“I now feel assured that to make an idol of an author or a fetish of a book is tantamount to slavery in one of its many forms… and my worship has given place to a more matured respect born of the knowledge of their fallibility and therefore the success of their achievements… This, I think, suggests the right relationship between author and reader.”
- miner Chester Armstrong (1868)

“I held that no man needs knowledge more than he who is subject to those who have knowledge - and because they have knowledge. That if there is one man in the world who needs knowledge, it is he who does the world’s most needful work and gets least return because he lacks knowledge.” - Jack Lawson 😮‍💨

Offers a contextual analysis of the literary canon drawn from work class readers' reactions. A more holistic interpreting of intellectual history and one that has been largely ignored. Life affirming and inspirational in its accounts of intellectual curiosity and the pleasure of reading. This book is a necessity in an increasingly illiterate age. I'm not even done with it yet !