Fwd: RIP George Steiner

[Mark Kohut]

I will NEVER give up my belief in "the moral power of literature". It is
the hill they will bury me on. I lead every class with it--as a thrown down
marker.
Which is why Pynchon and
Roth (who says and shows the same) and others, of course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/books/george-steiner-dead.html

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 4:35 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://twitter.com/toddgitlin/status/1224445002043887617?s=20
>
> From Language & Silence, read on my own first year university thru
> some others---
>
> If only I had been smart and disciplined enough to learn all i could have
> from his work.
>