But in order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.
—C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
There is an unconscious antagonism in us to anything that threatens our ingrained prejudices, and challenges us to grow. Because we are reluctant to admit our intolerance of a different viewpoint, we project the problem onto the text and proclaim, “This is a hard saying and who can bear with it?” We blame the text for our unwillingness to receive.
—Fr. Michael Casey, OCSO
“There is no book so bad…that it does not have something good in it.”
—Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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