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by SkyMarshal
5165 days ago
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Wow, awesome find. People have been worried about this problem forever it seems, not just in our modern world. But look how far we've fallen. If he thought novels were bad, I can't imagine what he'd think of our amusements and distractions today. He wrote that in 1839, just 12 years before Moby Dick was published. Wonder what he thought of that fiction book, generally considered to be one of, if not the, best English language novels written. |
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I dispute this statement. For one, more people alive now can read than could read back then.
Also, we no longer engage in the sport of bear-baiting.
> Wonder what he thought of that fiction book [Moby Dick], generally considered to be one of, if not the, best English language novels written.
He likely thought it was crap, because the British reviewers thought it was crap, because they got a mutilated copy to review. It wasn't until Melville was dead that the book actually got a fair shake.