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OPRAH

You know, we can make fun of Oprah or dismiss her impact or whatever disparagement us sophisticates want to do. That is OK.

But, I am knocked out to find that she is doing Faulkner in her book club this summer.

Now I have read the three books in question. They are not easy. This is a great thing.

I am so tired of people going on about how we are dumbing down. All that. Of course, it is everyone but whoever is making the remark. A form of false pride which is particularly unattractive.

Believe me, anyone who spends the summer reading As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and Light in Augustis not dumbing down. And, at the end of the summer, they will not be the same person who started the process.

I am very impressed with this. And they must have some idea that it will be picked up and followed. They don't do stuff without the research.