In Defense of Humanities. As universities [around the world] question the need for humanities education, John Landy, co-director of Stanford’s Philosophy and Literature Initiative comes to the defense of literature. “Spending time in the presence of works of great beauty can powerfully change your life,” he says.
Walter White: Hello?
David Bianculli: I’ve just named Breaking Bad my favorite show of 2011.
Walter White: Never mind that. We need a distributor now. Do you know anyone like that?
David Bianculli: Um…no?
I could lick my tongue across your arms and send echoes like woodpeckers through you and you say we are desperate for God? Yes we are, for in a world that is ruled by a country that measures its men by the length of the skirts of the women they fuck, are we not all?
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