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Readers Are Less And Less Seen As Mere Non-writers, The Subhuman "other" Or Flawed Derivative Of The Author; The Lack Of A Pen Is No Longer A Shameful Mark Of Secondary Status But A Positively Enabling Space, Just As Within Every Writer Can Be Seen To Lurk, As A Repressed But Contaminating Antithesis, A Reader.

Evil May Be 'unscientific' But So Is A Song Or A Smile.

The Study Of History And Philosophy, Accompanied By Some Acquaintance With Art And Literature, Should Be For Lawyers And Engineers As Well As For Those Who Study In Arts Faculties.

The Most Common Mistake Students Of Literature Make Is To Go Straight For What The Poem Or Novel Says, Setting Aside The Way That It Says It. To Read Like This Is To Set Aside The ‘literariness’ Of The Work – The Fact That It Is A Poem Or Play Or Novel, Rather Than An Account Of The Incidence Of Soil Erosion In Nebraska.

Dawkins Considers That All Faith Is Blind Faith, And That Christian And Muslim Children Are Brought Up To Believe Unquestioningly. Not Even The Dim-witted Clerics Who Knocked Me About At Grammar School Thought That.