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Ahem.
I doon't really know about a top ten, or a top five. Mainly, I'd say my knowledge of most things is intensely _trivial_ - little bits of character or nonsense picked up from idle inquiry. I don't have any formal processes of study - I just wander around looking stuff up or wandering onto stuff, and some of it sticks. Other times, I vaguely remember something and that makes me look it up and find out a bit more about it when someone else says something else that relates to it.
In terms of stuff I have a structured knowledge of, of a sort, at least, probably The Transformers (Generation 1), Latin, Ancient Greek and then bits of history, mainly pre-modern. That's four, isn't it? Umm... My father was a history buff, so quite a lot of that rubbed off. My dear bearded mother was at the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies, and the other one was a media studies lecturer, so I suppose possibly ... not really theory, but a mishmash of modernish philosophy with a slightly left-wing slant.
It's all pretty fluffy, really. As for gaps - I know nothing about science, maths, not much about law or politics, very little about modern poetry or literature, increasingly little about music - and nothing about classical at all, except for odd bits of Wagner. Pretty much everything else, in fact. |
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