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Denier's lottery and neo-illiteracy

The savage mind of the second order illiterate

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Michael Meurer
Feb 07, 2024
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“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.” Shirley Jackson

Upon receiving the 1985 Heinrich Boll Literary Prize in Cologne, German poet and social critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger used the occasion to deliver a startling speech not on the joys and wonders of literature, but “In Praise of Illiteracy.”

17,000 year old cave drawings, Lascaux, France. Wi…
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