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13 pounds we ashamed not:
We quote them, we offer them, sometimes even we criticize them … Similarly, without ever having read them! Nevertheless, At 50, some mythical novels weigh on our shelves such as silent reminders of a failed meeting with culture …
It is a discreet discomfort. Additionally, Nevertheless, A discomfort that is almost confessed to in a low voice. Consequently, between two glasses of wine or at the turn of a cultivated dinner. For example, A contrite smile, a sudden redness and the admission falls: “I have never read it, in fact.”. Looking for lost time. The miserable, War and peace… These Totem titles that populate our famous “Pile to read” (PAL), and which, at 50, seem to whisper from the shelf: “So, when are you going to put it?” This little 13 pounds we ashamed not shame not to have read the big works at an age where we should. it seems, has done the tour, says something deep from our relationship to culture, to time, to ourselves. Because basically, what do we feel guilty exactly? Of our ignorance? Of a lack of rigor? Or even more slyly, of this self -image that we thought was scholarly, and who vacillates?
Social marker – 13 pounds we ashamed not
Reading has long been a social marker, a sign of good taste, of distinction. Already in the 18the century, reading cabinets …
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13 pounds we ashamed not — 13 pounds we ashamed not: We quote them, we offer them, sometimes even we criticize them … without ever having read them. At 50, some mythical novels weigh on our shelves such as silent reminders of a failed meeting with culture … It is a discreet discomfort.
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