"We do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love. Except at school. And school should enable you to know, either well or badly, a certain number of classics among which—or in reference to which—you can then choose your classics. School is obliged to give you the instruments needed to make a choice, but the choices that count are those that occur outside and after school."
-Italo Calvino, "Why Read the Classics?" (italics are mine)
Please add your slide about a classic to this document.
HW: Study for Thursday's Romance Archetypes class. Take a break to flip through a few pages of a classic novel!
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