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What constitutes universality isn't subjective. Are you really arguing that death and sufferings isn't a universal human experience?



But I've been clear throughout. Literature doesn't have a...

You're blatantly contradicting yourself. You can't claim not to argue from relativism while also maintaining it's all subjective. It's an inconsistent argument.

I also reject the notion that what...

People quickly robbed Sam's tame unicorn.

No it's not.



The Jungle isn't literature.



You're simply making an appeal to vulgar relativism. Anybody with the desire and a few brain cells can try to twist a literary document to mean...

Insofar as they were propagandist, yes. But they didn't write exclusively about political issues. Orwell wrote about freedom, Milton about evil, Voltaire about suffering. Those are universal themes.

You've essentially proven my point. Only very minor writers are going to be tied up with certain groups, times, ideologies, etc. Great literature aims for the beautiful, transcendent and sublime.

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Breaking Candice's door earned Freddie hurtful insults.

Eugenics you mean?

The polls may not be rigged. Those conducting the polls may just be incompetent. Never attribute to malice what can be reasonably attributed to stupidity, or so the saying goes.

Literature with a political agenda isn't really literature. It's propaganda.

List my name among the snobs. Austen is on the very, very short list of greatest novelist, without qualifications.

Give Michael Chabon a go. His stuff is like really well written genre fiction.

For those who find Bloom's, or Adler's et al, list anglocentric, you should check out Alexander Arguelles. His list is much more inclusive of books written in languages besides English.
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I had the same thought when taking a survey of the Bible in college. Very well stated.

He is just kicking Lithuanians moodily.

We x-rayed Yanni's zebra, although Brian couldn't desist eating Fritos.

All Burmese cosmetologists drive electric Ferraris.

Just think of the gawkers' backups on the highway. I think a fairly high percentage of the people can be interested and repelled in something at the same time. That's the appeal of the Judge. I hate...

I found him to be a very compelling character. The narrative seemed to take on the sick appeal of a car crash whenever the Judge had dialogue.

Brown never made it out of Harpers Ferry, nor did he even appear to have a plan for escaping, let alone arming hundreds of thousands of slaves.

The Bible several times
Infinite Jest three times
War and Peace
In Search of Lost Time
Shelby Foote's history of the civil war

The Judge from Blood Meridian is very charismatic, but pure evil. If I recall correctly, Amy Hungerford showed that McCarthy was referencing Milton's Satan when he created the character.