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‘Lost In the Meritocracy’

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May 24, 2009

Better yet, theory was intent on proving the illegitimacy of all those great books he’d never read. “We skipped straight from ignorance to revisionism,” he writes of his cohort, “deconstructing a body of literary knowledge that we’d never constructed in the first place.”

via Book Review – ‘Lost In the Meritocracy – The Undereducation of an Overachiever,’ by Walter Kirn – Review – NYTimes.com.

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