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I remember reading some old articles once about how all lit would pass away under the onslaught of pulp magazines and later articles on the death of lit because of these new throw away "paperback" books. At each stage more and more people started reading and reading classic lit.
Once college was the domain of the elite who were raised on the classics. Today the classics are mangled at all levels form high schools to colleges. I had some of the same instructors as badgooddeb. "Teachers" who could not see the joyful playfulness in Twain's writing because they missed that page in their Cliff Notes. "Teachers" more concerned about Fitzgerald's sexual orientation than his writing. "Teachers" concentrating on Hemingway's political leanings rather than his fiction. "Teachers" who thought Voltaire was English because Candide was in English.
It is a wonder that I can think at all.
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