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Columbia S·chobl& June 7, 1967
J. C. Wilson
EAN I NG OF
THE
READING
_ ___ .... _________ _ ___ ______
My
p l ea t o
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te
you
I t
a n d,
rate,
preaching
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deep
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t o plead
any
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01 i v er Wendel l
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inst rument
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a
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real l y.
is
man
tha t ,
return
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s t retched,
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to
that
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or
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.
s 1on. "
d 1men
.
Your
minds
through
wi ll be str e t ched
teachers,
conv ersation,
of a ll these
a
mor e
n o ne
broadening
understand i ng
t hink and
of
feel,
music,
br i nJs
power
a
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throu]h
throuJh
i n
t h ey
a
deeper
the way
they
ha te an d
love,
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than
t he habit
of
read i ng books.
once wrote
Montaigne
(We need
courage
men
an d w o men )
what t h e
s l a v er y
and s olid
to
what
pain,
u s,
;
by
what
conten tment
ex t ent
s igns
genuin e
may be
known;
death,
what s prin gs move
occas ion of
the
l i cense
we s hould f ear
and shame;
a nd
cupidit y ,
and s ubmiss i on,
a nd l i b er t y
is
difference
between ambition and
wha t
know
a nd
a nd temperance,
is,
justice;
''who
so
many
different s tirrings within u s ."·
No
woman,
those
any
profoundly
deeply
The
n or
now
man,
wise
can r e a l l y
words who
u n derstand
has not
read
and br oadly.
defunct
an article
in
W o rld
April
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wa s
urging
a
book
week,
more
"Ba sically
abou t
al l
b o oks
more
different
1 s
The
more
th e
books y o u have
of
(no vels, plays,
read
co llege
have read,
kinds
He sai d,
in books.
what's
you
read a
v acations.
during
this is what
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to
students
scho o l
high
3
ess ays,
p oems,
bioJraph i es) the m ore you will know
a bout
things
mature
no t
an
of
put it
end,
to m y
you
get
int o
is true
but
I
To
t hat way.
r ead
is t o
mind,
you
di fficult
you
do when
course,
l ikel y
the
readind
demanding
to
have
This,
h ome with
fe el at
will
t he more
and
wi l l
co lle�e."
wis h
to
s olely
corrupt
h ad
he
gain
forever
one
of the grea test j oys a vai lable t o us humans.
Think
just a
momen t
of
a
experiences wh i ch man
has
way
be
for you
except
and
t hrough
me
to
books
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no
involved
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to
be
invol ved
and
not
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to waive,
ignores
spirits,
t he grea t
of
member
friends h i p,
exis ting
his tory.
in a
is to
ignore,
minds,
of
gr i
is
no
the
of
truth,
of
e f , o f courage,
i s really
k i nd of
It
No o ne who
j u s tice,
of
of sacrifice,
and
love
to rea d,
the meaning
happiness,
of
no t
of
life i tse lf.
in a way,
an d
wh o
one
as a
duty,
bea u t y ,
of
charac ter,
ignores,
only a
bu t also an e c s ta t ic under s t anding
t h e race,
of
no t
to waive
living.
vacuum
isol ated
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are
from
that great hum a n p arade which stretches
back an d
records were
whose
I t
heritages
who
of
depths
in
of
and
men,
parade of
peo p l e
h a ve
ha ve made u s, o ur beliefs,
left u s p r i c e l ess
ideas and
appallinJ
1s a
achievements an d wh ose
frailit i e s
o ur minds,
men
the dark past b e f o r e
made.
towering
poiJnant
an d
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back
cra ven
of
times .
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one o f
Can any
you say
convic t i o n
wi t h
that
is living fully i f he has n o acqua intance
he
with
splendor which
of human
bur s t
that
bloomed for a few h undred years o n the shores
before
of -the Aegean
sweep
majestic
of
wr a t h at. t he rape
the b i r t h
H o mer's
of
t ale
He l en
of
Jes u s ?
of
the Greeks'
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t he l ong seige
and
_IS
of Troy,-/1.uxurian t wi t h characters o f men
and
gods
which no o ne who has read t he Iliad
can
ever
forget.
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wisdom
ideas
a
more
two
I t
mille nnia,
more
most
beauty,
honor,
and
been
beautifu l
pro bed
after
more
in literature
w ords
t h an
he, with superb art, s ubtly
ill umina t es t h e
found
love,
a Jlorious pros e
is hard t o find
concise,
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in
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of
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others
than
deeply.
more
justice,
of
dozen
describes
he
as
depths
iss ues which
important.
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chapter
fully
unders t o od
Don Quixo te.
read
alone
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you
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b oo k
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probably
d o not
stands almost
in the fert ility o f
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pleasures,
t he mind
leave s
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ironic
hist ory which
in men's
be
cannot
us an
left
Rosinante,
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a
capacious
instrument.
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thrusting
and
periods,
p eriod
we
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panoram i c
of
wh e n
call
his
picture
literature,
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of
t he
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of
magni t ude,
cam e
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t he ma j e s t i c
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and
so,
I
of
them
stay
o bject ive
the riches
Gat h e r
Shakespeare.
there.
y o u,
of
beJ
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G ome t o know tho se people.
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as unfor:�ettab l e charac t ers,
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Macbeth,
Des demona,
Henry
V
a
and
dea thless
which f o r e v e r capture t he s pirit of
and
Falstaff,
the Mo o r
those
and
about
a
words
country
race.
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Crispin Cr ispian shall ne'er g o b y,
From
this
But
We
day
few,
the e nding o f
it s hal l
in
we
to
we
happy
be
the world,
remembered;
we
few,
band
of
brothers;
For h e today t hat s h eds h i s bl o od wi t h me
Sha ll be my
This
day
brother;
shall
And gentleman
Shal l
he ne'er
be
gen tl e
his
so
vile
condition:
in England n o w a-bed
t h ink themselves
were
accurs 'd t hey
n ot here,
And hold t h eir manhoods cheap wh iles
a ny speaks
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Come closer
race becomes
a
mass 1v e
to al l western men,
it but through
t hat
As
to o ur t ime.
boo ks.
promise
danger and a
c o nsi d er
h ow
else t o
you
T h ose of
Slavic
vast
who
know
have
y e t t o p o·n d er To 1 s t o y a n d D o s t o e v sl i h av e
a l most unspeakab l e j oy ahead.
Peace";
in "War an d
a ridi t y
t he
t h e s ad
in t uit ive wisdom,
s tubbormess,
of K.u t uzov'
ye t
stupidity,
peasan t
retrea t, an
s
enveloping abs orption of
lives
desolation and
Napole on's m o n strous
of
grim
Something
the enemy
bi tte rly
opposed b y t he bright young in t e llec t ual s,
but
the
win;
on l y conceiv able strategy whic h cou ld
the
clear
s plendor o f
Prince
Na t as h a Ro s t ov,
ar t
w
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thus we
hi c h
Dublin,
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1 iv e
to
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of
of
revo l ution,
t he
Andrey,
t he s adnes s
of
prophecy
man
life
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and literature which
is
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immortal .
probab l y
Bloom's conc l udinJ s o l i l o q u y
learning
without
Many
bitterly
will
p leas
Please,
the
have
o n
you
do.
can e
You
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happ i nes s.
c o u rse
of ;your
f u t ur e,
w i ves or
i mpact on
t hat of
wil l
your
make
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the
p l or e
do
them.
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you
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your
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No
impact richer
that precious
x
fill
whether
world's
in
Bu t
w h e t h er
hus band and
that
c h oices
g l ar i n g .
g r e a t er
become
go i ng,
hard
the rich ness
are
t hat .
for
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of
with
lives
is
cr i t i c i ze t h e
The omissions
not apo l ogize
I t
w omen.
h a ve us ed as examples
books.
in "U l y sses "
i s staggering.
t he re w ar d
but
of
ol ly
c an read
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or
only
c h i l dr e n,
i f
instrument
y ou
keep
t h rough
readinJ.
The
unknowing
the co n t rary,
to
l i fe
1n
cen t ury
1s
r i ch
i m p o se d
by
dazz l ing tec h nological and
in the
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i s ru t hles s l y
I t
equan i mity s udden
t reasured
the
cr ises
i n t eres t s
deeply
on
t he
whos e
one
hand,
penetrating
comprehend;
w ants
and
use
res pons ibilit y
of
its
people's
men
and
a re
women
the
for
h a pp i ness
t he
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the w o r l d's �ood
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t oil
all
share
and
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l i ke s tates men,
a l ike, mus t
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of
the facts t he s c i en t i st
e n t ruste d
h o ld ten a c i o u s l y
no t
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for
un l ike po l iticians ,
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phen omena
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face
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s l ow remorseless
s ociet y
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So
much
obscure
talk of beauty and joy should not
th e
act wel l.
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b e s ucc e s sful
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mus t
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Commencement Speech given at the Columbia School, Rochester New York
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