Mind the Erudition Gap
Come on, 'fess up. Everybody's got some. Those classics you think you should have read but haven't got around to. The elan (or not) expressed in the dropping of a winged word (ahem) into casual conversation or wedding speech or essay, such as "his life lie", or "Major Major Major," or "petite madeleine".
I'll show you mine and hope you will show me yours.
Three books I hope to really, really get around to reading this year because I have never read them though I own two of them are:
1. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
2. The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
3. Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
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