“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

similar topics

• In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the clash between Jean Valjean's moral transformation and Inspector Javert's unbending idea of justice.
• Cervantes's Don Quixote charges at windmills he takes for giants; is he mad, or does he see the world not as it is but as it ought to be? Is idealism a form of madness?
• The literary classics forced on students at school may be destroying their desire to read for pleasure.
• A self-described novelist boasted that with AI she can produce a new book in 45 minutes. What is a book worth when anyone can generate one?
• Borges imagines the universe as an infinite library containing every possible book. If everything has already been written, is meaning lost in the abundance of information, or in our inability to find it?