Kids These Days

[sdi]

According to my diary, about a decade ago, I was sitting in a cafe and overheard an elderly man ranting to his wife, "Kids these days don't appreciate books!" He said this even as I and many other young people were sitting around him, reading.

I was reminded of this today. I was in the library when I heard two teenagers come upstairs wondering to themselves where to find the Divine Comedy. I happened to know where it was—right next to Plotinus ;)—so I went a few aisles over, pulled it out, came back, and handed it to them. They lit up.

Comments

[boccaderlupo]

Amusing that the Commedia would be placed so perilously close to the Neoplatonists...!

:)

[sdi]

Well, you see, all books are hypostases of the Platonic ideal form of a book, and therefore possess the same inherent storyness... ;)

(More seriously, the library's copies of Plotinus and Dante are both from Encyclopædia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World series, which are arranged roughly chronologically. The only authors making the cut between 300 and 1300 are Augustine and Aquinas.)