Where Have All the Great Works Gone?
Ben White
AUGUST 21, 2023
From Tanner Greer’s The Scholar’s Stage : The professionalization of intellectual pursuit is another problem. Melville would never have written Moby Dick if he had spent years enrolled in an MFA program instead of spending years at sea. Men and women who in past ages would have observed humanity up close (or at least who would have been forced through a broad but rigorous education in classics) instead cloister themselves in ivory towers.
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