Denier's lottery and neo-illiteracy
The savage mind of the second order illiterate
“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.”
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