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Card 454 of 10002026-08-26 issue

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The Kansas City Classical Society Reads With Conviction

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A Kansas City book club organizes its classical reading campaign around monthly convocations, shared inquiry, essays, nominations, and snacks.

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The society turns literary discussion into a small constitutional system: a syllabus is amended from the floor, members nominate and vote on future books, and an admin reveals secret ballots. Its charter borrows the language of Franklin's Junto while adding a local penalty of snacks for excessive certainty. The visible campaign is finishing Paradise Lost, with Paradise Regained and the Lewis listed for August; the annals claim a journey across approximately four thousand years of literature.

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