On Philistinism

"I am so, so glad to know that my loathing for Ulysses is not because I am uncultured Philistine. I, perhaps, made it slightly farther than you, searching for the brilliance I was told lay inside, but if I did, it was not by much."

Philistine? The problem is that I am a philistine, and proud of it. I read an enjoy Pulp rubbish like THE SHADOW and DOC SAVAGE and children's books like HARRY POTTER and THE HOBBIT, not to mention comics by Alexander Raymond and Jack 'King' Kirby. I enjoy popular acti