Literary Enlightenment

English literature, both the reading and the intelligent critique, is most often outside my grasp. I am not sufficiently well-read to make the grand connections between ideas, characters, symbols or narratives; I lack the training and particular intelligence required to insightfully deconstruct and appreciate the writer's text and meaning. Too much of the genre and accompanying industry is far from my own experience so I am as a novice, floundering, unable to reach the surface or even understand where the surface might be located.

Determined pig-ignorance, however, keeps me trying.

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Literary Enlightenment

English literature, both the reading and the intelligent critique, is most often outside my grasp. I am not sufficiently well-read to make the grand connections between ideas, characters, symbols or narratives; I lack the training and particular intelligence required to insightfully deconstruct and appreciate the writer's text and meaning. Too much of the genre and accompanying industry is far from my own experience so I am as a novice, floundering, unable to reach the surface or even understand where the surface might be located.

Determined pig-ignorance, however, keeps me trying.

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