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2vorpaltome
Arguments with canons are probably just the sort of thing that may precipitate the end of the world. Just make as many copies of project gutenberg as you can.
3Eurydice
Darn it, what if I want a copy of The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, to show them the extravagance, humor, mystery, and general craziness of life? The importance of music? The fun of pastiche? ;) This is rather off the subject, but I wish E.T.A. Hoffman had lived to finish it.
Meanwhile.......if there's a limit of five books, I don't see much disagreement arising. We would have to pick something that, even with personal disagreements, would add up to a close-to-standard canonical list. It's when you venture much farther that the real disagreement and the real room for different standards of value arises. It's not that I don't find the idea of the canon useful, though it can be a two-edged sword; but I don't think I can say anything very valuable, here. I'd take a Bible and leave out Middlemarch, much though I have loved it. (The only reaction, off the top of my head; and despite NOT wanting to deprive us of at least one book by a woman.)
Meanwhile.......if there's a limit of five books, I don't see much disagreement arising. We would have to pick something that, even with personal disagreements, would add up to a close-to-standard canonical list. It's when you venture much farther that the real disagreement and the real room for different standards of value arises. It's not that I don't find the idea of the canon useful, though it can be a two-edged sword; but I don't think I can say anything very valuable, here. I'd take a Bible and leave out Middlemarch, much though I have loved it. (The only reaction, off the top of my head; and despite NOT wanting to deprive us of at least one book by a woman.)
