http://estellacat.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] estellacat.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] montagnarde1793 2009-09-02 09:59 pm (UTC)

Quite. Well, I've dropped Roman History and am now enrolled in Calculus. I can't say I regret it all that much.
Well I have a weakness for Cicero, who, though not half bad by Roman standards, is hardly a revolutionary either, so I can't really talk. >.>;
I hardly meant to suggest that listening to writers on subjects they know nothing about is a good thing. I was just being perhaps a bit pessimistic and noting that beyond the present fact that our society tends to put writers on a pedestal, people are probably more likely to listen to someone who is eloquent than someone who has excellent ideas but no flair for expressing them.

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