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I recall that even in ancient China, administrators of the empire were selected on the basis of competence in the ancient classics.
Clearly, David Galef's classics course was done in translation, for had he read in Greek, he would never have written Pandora's Box but Pandora's Wine Jar [The Niceness Principle, XVII , 2].
Writings by the imprisoned Chinese political activist are granted a place "among the classics of the 20 th century literature of dissent, alongside the writings of figures like Vaclav Havel, Vladmir Bukovsky and Adam Michnik" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The collection mainly consists of letters, written from prison to Chinese leaders, pleading the case for democracy.
As it is the humble, brazen harmonica, he suggests for the repertoire pop songs of all epochs or popular classics.
What resulted, as Peter Biskind shows in his New Hollywood dish bible Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , was an epidemic of megalomania, sexual libertinism, money-wasting, and drug abuse--as well as a few dozen classics of American cinema.