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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Empress Laurell: Only those who are truly worthy can see how good my books are.
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I remember reading a similar screed by John Dunne back in the days of my undergraduate degree, and it was about the only fun thing we read in that class, which was the dullest class I took for my degree. It was the preface to his collected poetry and it was all about how the poems were brilliant and, anyone who didn't think so was clearly too stupid or uneducated or unsophisticated to see how great they are. The restoration/18th century was probably the dullest period in all of literature (lots of 'Pope writing poems that were really making fun of Johnson' followed by 'Johnson writing poems that were really about making fun of Pope') but that preface was hilarious just for the ego involved.