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I think there is plenty of good and great writing that isn't timeless. Especially when it comes to essays, where the nature of what we know and care about chan
by TimPC 7y ago
I think there is plenty of good and great writing that isn't timeless. Especially when it comes to essays, where the nature of what we know and care about changes so dramatically. An essay written to convince a slaver of the moral errors of slavery may seem so obvious to the modern reader as to be condescending, but, effective in it's time period, it was great writing.
- friendlybus 7y agoTrue the content of the stories fade in and out of relevance and greatness. The structuring of essays improves and dips in transcendent quality over time depending on the behaviour of authors at large and human understanding of communication through essay. The virtue and successful execution of well structured essays is timeless. RD's work is well structured. It's possible to learn and execute on structures that are proven to work across time and speak for themselves in the results.