Thread: The Decline and Fall of American Literary Culture
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Old 03-18-2013, 10:09 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
Before then, the purpose of genre writers was to be the bottom feeders of the publishing world. Good for profit, but not worthy of other notice. (after all, they weren't literature.)
So what was the original standard?

"Have to disservice a casual reader at least X times, and be completely incomprehensible to at least Y percent of the population"?
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