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Imagining Money (Literature and Economics) 1-16-19

Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 4:28 p.m.

b'This is the first class of a new course called "Imagining Money."\\xa0 You can find a draft syllabus -- an aspirational one, since we\'ll never get through it all --\\xa0here.\\xa0 There are handouts for the first three days: the\\xa0short passage from Beckett\\xa0we discuss first, a\\xa0miscellany of poems and riddles about money, and a selection of\\xa0passages from Milton, Ovid, and Ambrose Bierce.\\xa0 The syllabus gives you the lines to read from Milton\'s\\xa0Paradise Lost, viz. Book 1, ll. 674-751, and Book 8, ll. 1-178.\\xa0 And\\xa0here\\xa0is the Kawabata story.'