Are the old timey greats such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes,
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Are the old timey greats such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dickens, austen, etc proof that consumption of art does not correlate with production, which means that academia-publishing-media industrial complex and its associated pseudo-intellectual hangers on are wrong when they tell you that you're retarded for not spending shitloads of time buying books and reading them and paying tonnes of money (and time) """studying""" at universities?
>>8012587
all of these people you listed were well read and educated.
you think they didn't read a whole lot?
>>8012587
>Thinking Chaucer wasn't well read
Have you read anything he wrote? He drops references to French, Italian, and Latin(both Roman and translated from Greek) works constantly.
>>8012587
>capeshit picture
Why am I not fucking surprised.
>>8012587
It's not only about how much you read, but what you read. Education in those days pretty much meant classical studies, all but guaranteeing every serious student a solid education.