ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE YEARS YOUNG
HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE YEARS YOUNG
Last Thursday Canada celebrated its 143rd birthday. Compared to most nations on this globe our national identity is still very, very young.
Now examine the timeline of our literary history against that of the rest of the world–the Norton Anthology of World Literature cites the first great narrative of world literature to be “Gilgamesh,” written down on clay tablets around 2000 B.C. — and we are not just in our infancy, we are essentially the newest of the newborn. And…
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