ENG 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Magic In Harry Potter
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Treasure: knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Just collecting in the mind for no particular (or no important/purposeful) purpose. You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word wisdom" mentioned! (147) Fosters the quality and depth of our lives. More of a slow thoughtfulness, rather than the rapid-paced quest for knowledge that is driven by college and university. The ego judges: then, more accurately, the true opposite of wisdom is judgment. I [zooey] sit in judgment on every poor, ulcerous bastard i know (137: zooey is self-aware, and self-revelations like these are common throughout the novel. They"re lethal as hell, as a matter of factbut what i [zooey] don"t like and what i don"t think either seymour or buddy would like either, as a matter of fact is the way you [franny] talk about all these people.
