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Originally Posted by eschwartz
So again, epigraphs are worse than your own movie-comparison ads and trailers and federal warnings and other stuff... because why? ...
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I think i'ts because I fell like I'm on the losing side of some game of literacy one-upmanship that I don't want to play.
I don't want to have to google "obscure dead white guy" in order to appreciate the context of some obscure quote from some even more obscure book that the author studied in advanced latin, or be reminded that i have not personally read the tentire bibliography of every author of note from 1400 ad onwards ( shock , horror)
I'd actually rather have the top 40 lyrics quotes, though they will lead to much head scratching for readers of any book that outlives the current pop culture
we could try the honesty test.: open say 100 books from your calibre library. list all the books/plays/poems that are name-checked in their epigraphs - admit to how many of those you've never read or never heard of
I'd do it for you but I've zapped all of mine