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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
There's some value in approaching the classics a little less seriously.
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Mostly, classics got that way because people liked them in the first place.* Over time, the situations and the language may become more challenging, but there’s something there that won people over initially.
*There are exceptions of course, hence the mostly.
Finnegan’s Wake, anyone? Not that no one enjoys it; I recently finished
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell and he said he read and reread it compulsively.