
47: How to Read a Book
Classical Stuff You Should Know
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The Importance of Deep Studying Books
I think that once you are leaving the book that is considered great, its tendrils will ideally reach everything. So bringing Skyrim into a discussion about Beowulf is fine. I can say yes, it's influenced the way the video games are made. It's influenced storytelling. They still bring dragons up because dragons still are cool. But I don't think studying Skyrim is going to deliver for you. And a lot of the side quests are all the same. You know what I mean? A video game being brought up skyrim is a video game for anyway. Bring up the video game a couple times in class to make the comparison but you shouldn't do an entire class on Skyrim and
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