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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I dislike the artificiality of the 100 year term. A stand of pine forest takes about 30 years to be ready for harvest, not 100 years.
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30 years... 100 years...
Makes no difference.
Books are for reading so if nobody can read the manuscript it might as well not exist.
Besides, given the fate of many "literary" works acclaimed by the establishment a century ago, odds are that the next century will say "Margaret who?" and move on to the new, September 2114, release from James Patterson.