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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
And as for drafts, until an author has actually sent those drafts out the door, you cannot make claim that they were ever intended for publication. They could have fully finished it and chucked it into the fire after being unhappy with it. I'm not arguing against posthumous publication generally, only where it violates the authors wishes.
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And what if there was no door to send things out of? What if everything just existed in its own place at all times?
At what point do we say a work has been published? When the creator of the work determines it to be so? Would creating a single copy of a work and leaving it on your coffee table cause the work to be published if the author wills it to be so? Does this act of publishing qualify as sending itself out the door? Has the work now entered the public consciousness to be acted upon? Able to be torn apart and reworked into something more?
