Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Literary Police Blotter

Who says literary sneakiness can’t have a big payout?
In a brazen attempt to attract students to the pleasures of reading by associating classic literature with acts of senseless violence, a professor at a well-known liberal-arts college ran the following log in the pages of the campus newspaper. The local bookstore noted a sudden spike in sales of The Iliad.
The full story is in The Chronicle of Higher Education and it’s here.

(Hat tip to Barbara Fister.)

1 comment:

Peter Rozovsky said...

That is absolutely no surprise to me. I write here about a number of crime-fiction killers, authors and heroes not normally thought of as such, among them Aristotle, King David, Shakespeare, Voltaire and an author of the Icelandic sagas.
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