> #Snobbery is pride in status without pride in function. And it is an uneasy pride of status.. "Do I belong..? And does he belong? And if I am observed talking to him, will it make me seem to belong or.." It is the peculiar vice.. of bourgeois democratic societies.. legendary strongholds of snobbery are the Hollywood studios.. The dominant emotions of snobbery are uneasiness, self-consciousness, self-defensiveness, the sense that one is not quite real but can.. acquire reality.
#LionelTrilling

> In any genre it may happen that the first great example contains the whole potentiality of the genre. It has been said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato. It can be said that all prose fiction is a variationon the theme of #DonQuixote.
https://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=adbeba9fe81ec21540a33a9134050685&downloadname=10.2307/4332909
#LionelTrilling #TowardsLiberalEducation #AlfredNorthWhitehead on #Plato applied to the #Novel and #DonQuijote of #Cervantes. #EduardoGaleano says the first novels were by the Japanese women "SeiShonagon and #MurasakiShikibu