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Originally Posted by cybmole
if seems ( obviously in my own paranoia) that the author is implying : if you've not read the obscure book used for my epigraph you clearly don't have the right literary background to appreciate what comes next. Lifes too short to have to detour & read all that stuff.
so Carpe Diem, or fish for dinner as we say here, and all that...
honesty test 2: what % of authors have actually read their epigraph sources , cover to cover, and what % just googled up something suitably academic looking ?
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Man, paranoia is right. That sounds like a full-blown complex you got going, there. I've never once felt an epigraph was some sort of "test" for the right to appreciate, nor wondered whether the author had read their own epigraph source (life's indeed too short to worry about stuff like that).
So does removing the "test" restore your right to read the book without the proper prerequisites, then?
I repeat ... skipping an epigraph is still a lot easier than dreaming up delusional reasons for their existence.