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From: James Elliott <libraryjim>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:22:55 -0400 (EDT)
I found this quote in "Ex Libris" by Anne Fadiman, who quotes from Virginia Woolfe, that I think is appropriate to the discussion. Substitute 'child reader' for 'common reader', and 'adult for scholar', and one comes close to the difference of which we are speaking:
"The common reader, she said, 'differs from the critic and the scholar. He is worse educated, and nature has not gifted him so generously. He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole.'"1
Jim Elliott, North Georgia
1. (Fadiman, Anne, (1998). "Ex Libris", p.x, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
Received on Thu 23 Jul 2009 03:22:55 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:22:55 -0400 (EDT)
I found this quote in "Ex Libris" by Anne Fadiman, who quotes from Virginia Woolfe, that I think is appropriate to the discussion. Substitute 'child reader' for 'common reader', and 'adult for scholar', and one comes close to the difference of which we are speaking:
"The common reader, she said, 'differs from the critic and the scholar. He is worse educated, and nature has not gifted him so generously. He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole.'"1
Jim Elliott, North Georgia
1. (Fadiman, Anne, (1998). "Ex Libris", p.x, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
Received on Thu 23 Jul 2009 03:22:55 PM CDT
