Saturday, September 18, 2004

On Students

Students are a great illumination as they never cease to ask you the kind of questions that you have secretly wished to forget. E.g.: what is literary study for?

Well, I once did ask that myself, and to this day I haven't been able to come up with an answer. Only by negative formulations can I hint at a possible answer.

It doesn't make you a better writer, it doesn't make you a better person, it may make you a better reader, but then, you may overread at any moment, etc. etc.