Can't accuse him of not being zealous.

That doesn't even get to things like furniture and decor, some of the most beautiful and sought after items at auction.

Some illustrators are also criminally underrated, e.g., Warwick Goble and Ivan Bilibin.

Morris & Hogarth mass produced their work.

Michaelangelo and Raphael had assistants work on their paintings. Some great artists had assistants complete paintings with oversight and direction.

I've been able to buy postcards, posters and desk calendars of my favorite pictures my whole life.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a perfect movie, despite being designed around a conference table.

Not the most moving or important or human movie ever made but everything in it is exactly right.

For something more intimate and human, try Empire of the Sun. He directed a kid to carry that movie.

Ada Lovelace chuckles, thinking of her dad, Lord Byron.

I can't see a Darwin or a Jefferson or a Shelley (Mr & Mrs) without a classical education.

I'm biased though; I studied the Great Books.

It's also important to bring the foundation of our historic elite education and culture to hoi polloi.

Anyway, I love that they brought so much joy to you and so many other people. The way kids experience books is so magical.

It's so great you had that in your life.

I can see that. That's how I feel ASOIAF. I'm about 10 years too old for prime HP readership, so I read them as an adult. Definitely a different experience!

In general I like MG books because they're carefully crafted jewels, and I didn't find that in HP, but the movies are like that.

This is my favorite recentish MG series, the first 2 books, anyway.

www.goodreads.com/series/11740...

Seriously, don't sleep on Newberry winners and medalists. They really pick them well.

Generally, middle grade and some YA are held to higher literary standards than most genre literature.

I consider _Wind in the Willows_ one of the greatest pieces of English literature. Maybe the most beautiful English novel ever.

I suspect Rowling refused editing as success grew and it shows.

I read a lot of middle grade fiction because some are the most well written and crafted novels.

It was odd to me that people liked the later books more than the first. The first is well organized and elegant, while the later ones become bloated and sloppy, the prose gets markedly worse.

These age ranges are way off.

Link to the full hearing is here! Guess it did end up on YouTube.

Really humbled and grateful for the opportunity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urg4...

Honestly, I think the Humanities are necessary to open the expressive humanity and curiosity of people who are inclined that way. But novels written before, say, 1985 had more effect on developing openness and theory of mind among most people. Men started reading them later than women.

To be fair, those guys were also torn from their parents at age 7 so they could be beaten and abused at the boarding schools where they learned this stuff.

Moms dragging a toddler and a baby in a carrier up the StairMaster while the four year old eats French fries that missed the trash can and the six year old disappears to stare at the Swarovski Chrystal display.

"Kirk finds Trelane seated on a courtroom bench, dressed in the white wig and robes reminiscent of an English circuit judge. Trelane reads charges of "treason", "conspiracy", and "fomenting insurrection", and then, silencing Kirk's protests, condemns Kirk to death by hanging."

From wiki:

"Spock reasons that Trelane knows only the forms of earth history and not the substance; the equivalent of someone 900 light years away from earth who is studying earth history through a telescope but having no concept that 400 years have passed."