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Originally Posted by Jellby
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"  |
Bad poems are written every day. Reading Melville’s isn’t going to stop that, I’m afraid.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Besides, who is going to judge whether or not a piece of literature is crap? Even if everyone agrees on it, it might be different in 20 years, or 200.
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It might be. But with that argument you need to preserve everything that was ever published. I think it’s enough that the Library of Congress does that.
Also, I still have the romantic notion that those re-discoveries should be more difficult than a Google search.
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That said, we are all volunteers here, so we get to work on whatever we like. If you don't like Melville's poetry and don't feel like putting it in an ePub, just don't do it  |
I haven’t read it, so I don’t know if I like it. I would tend to a ‘nay’ in this poll, but I won’t vote as I asked all of you to decide for me and I will respect the outcome. If I weren’t fine with either result, I would not have set up this poll.