I suppose everybody does get attached to characters whether in movies or in stories, but I think that's part of the reason you get involved with literature is because there's somebody that grabs you about it and then you want to figure out why.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

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