From Dwight MacDonald’s scathing, funny, and right-on dismantling of Mortimer Adler’s Great Books anthology of 443 works by 76 authors in 54 volumes:

…books, like people, look better out of uniform. It bothers me to see Tristram Shandy dressed like the Summa Theologica.

The review, published in a New Yorker, is just too delightful and insightful. [Tag: EverythingIsMiscellaneous]

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