It is weird to think that some books would be considered rubbish and that it was the equivalent of watching too much television these days. I mean when you read more classical books, you would think they were quite good now and quite proper. But during their time, they were considered trash by lots of people. Say books like Tess of the D'ubervilles or Jane Austen books, they have feminist undertones. And during those times, it would have been considered highly inappropriate. And also books that challenged social sensibilities, they would be called blasphemous, pornographic, violent, and really, just of poor taste.
So it is very ironic, that these book that were so despised has now become some sort of norm for the social elite to study and 'analyze', what they mean, the life of a simpler time. Essentially, what the book was meant to be has been so deformed into exactly what it was fighting against.
I get the sense that some book written by some ancient Greek idiot will today be idolized by scholars which is ridiculous. What is my point? The point is this. I am tired and I have no idea what I'm saying.
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