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I take more pleasure from well-crafted polyglot files (e.g. PoC||GTFO) than I ever have from classic literature.

Theodores 8y ago
My auntie takes more pleasure from watching the news to see what colour tie the newsreader is wearing than from watching the news to find out what is happening in the world. I personally believe that she is missing out on something. I also think that she could watch something on the other side if it is fashion that really interests her, particularly when her comments on ties prevent others in the room from actually hearing the news. I had a school friend that used 7" records as frisbees and made 12" records into plant pot holders. This was fine until he started doing this with my prized records. It is the same here, there is a disconnect going on, a lack of appreciation for Shakespeare which is more than mere 'classic literature', it is an education. PoC||GTFO indeed. TLAs are not helpful.
- detaro 8y ago
  I don't think you have any basis for claiming intellectual superiority when you started this by judging the education and interests of a person from a single thing they've done.
  - Theodores 8y ago
    Shakespeare wrote for a wide audience. In his plays there was plenty to entertain people from all walks of life regardless of education level, in fact literacy was not a prerequisite at all. I make no claims for intellectual superiority, I do have thespian friends who I do read Shakespeare with so that when we do go to the Globe we have a little bit of an idea of what we are seeing. From this I appreciate how my thespian friends value this cornerstone of English culture. Consequently I believe something is lost when the great works are reduced to a tweet. Had the post been made by someone who knew who identified with the literature - a fan - then I might have seen this as admirable fan love. There is nothing new in hiding text in images, in fact I do this for myself to see if images can do better in Google SEO, and if indexed images can be searched for by unique phrases hidden in the binary as well as the EXIF data. I do this with the permission of the owner of the images and I don't blindly take images or text for this that others might consider sacred. I think that Shakespeare 'himself' would have been okay with having his complete works stuffed into a tweet as 'he' did steal most of his stories from elsewhere.

My auntie takes more pleasure from watching the news to see what colour tie the newsreader is wearing than from watching the news to find out what is happening in the world. I personally believe that she is missing out on something. I also think that she could watch something on the other side if it is fashion that really interests her, particularly when her comments on ties prevent others in the room from actually hearing the news. I had a school friend that used 7" records as frisbees and made 12" records into plant pot holders. This was fine until he started doing this with my prized records. It is the same here, there is a disconnect going on, a lack of appreciation for Shakespeare which is more than mere 'classic literature', it is an education. PoC||GTFO indeed. TLAs are not helpful.

detaro 8y ago
I don't think you have any basis for claiming intellectual superiority when you started this by judging the education and interests of a person from a single thing they've done.
- Theodores 8y ago
  Shakespeare wrote for a wide audience. In his plays there was plenty to entertain people from all walks of life regardless of education level, in fact literacy was not a prerequisite at all. I make no claims for intellectual superiority, I do have thespian friends who I do read Shakespeare with so that when we do go to the Globe we have a little bit of an idea of what we are seeing. From this I appreciate how my thespian friends value this cornerstone of English culture. Consequently I believe something is lost when the great works are reduced to a tweet. Had the post been made by someone who knew who identified with the literature - a fan - then I might have seen this as admirable fan love. There is nothing new in hiding text in images, in fact I do this for myself to see if images can do better in Google SEO, and if indexed images can be searched for by unique phrases hidden in the binary as well as the EXIF data. I do this with the permission of the owner of the images and I don't blindly take images or text for this that others might consider sacred. I think that Shakespeare 'himself' would have been okay with having his complete works stuffed into a tweet as 'he' did steal most of his stories from elsewhere.