A little knowledge is a trivial thing
A comment posted in wouldprefernot's Live Journal.
I rarely read poetry. Always thought I'd read more. There are snatches of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Keats and contemporaries floating in the back of my mind. But that was mostly read in my late teens. Blessedly, I don't remember any of the poetry of Richard Evans Lee.
I did buy the Library of America Wallace Stevens when it came out, but Stevens takes concentration I never seem to have time for.
I have a stack of neglected books similar to yours on the Middle East. Mine are on the Ancient Near East, same place just an awful lot earier. I'm interested in the origin and history of religion. A thousand pages of archaeology can make for dull reading since much of it is summarizing the surviving fragments of material culture and nowadays most scholars know better than to indulge in much pointless speculation.
I know more about the subject than most of the idiots I hear on the radio; but that sort of superiority is to real knowledge as shoplifting is to robbing Fort Knox.
Feel the same thing in many ways. Even in a society where most people don't know anything, knowing a little really isn't that much.
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