It’s a bit odd to think that I’m decently educated for our time but would be functionally illiterate for two centuries back.
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Trivia that matter
During my Ph.D. program, I was reading Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, and mentioned to one of my profs that it was humbling to think that I was where I was academically, but only then reading what used to be standard Freshman fodder.
“Yes, Mr. [Mondo],” she replied, “and fifty years prior to that, they would have been reading it in Latin.”