Be it known that this writer does not have a college education. He has a high school education and he served an apprenticeship in a trade. The lovely Lady Nib has a college education in art, but she has the sense to ignore all the social nonsense that the university added to a training in painting and drawing.
This being said, your faithful correspondent has always been a big reader of novels ranging from Lester Dent to Shakespeare and Joyce (a truly rotten writer despite what the Micks may say). In high school we were expected to be able to read sophisticate and adult (not "adult") literature.
Now it seems that the average high school student cannot read a non-abridged version of one of Fitzgerald's novels.
Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal
Let's face it, Roger Ebert is an elitist butthead, but a blind squirrel is right occasionally.
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