Was talking with prof about this essay and he pointed out to me that literacy loss has created whole generations of people unable to access their culture or past. College diploma holders who are incapable of reading the Bible https://open.substack.com/pub/kittenbeloved/p/college-english-majors-cant-read?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Here these college students, English MAJORS, some of them, were asked to read Dickens and describe what was happening in modern language. They were so bad at it the facilitator was sniggering while administering the test

maybe I don’t understand it, but I’m confident I can fail to understand some more

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This is an epidemic. Perhaps it's what happens when truth is given so little import in a society.

Bleak House is one of my fave Dickens... And I wouldn't have ever labeled it a difficult read.

well, sometimes when you don’t understand you also don’t understand that you don’t understand