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> Also, because all the best of your modern books will soon enough be "classics" too, and you'll be as dead as the people who wrote the older classics. > So wh
by johnchristopher 6y ago
> Also, because all the best of your modern books will soon enough be "classics" too, and you'll be as dead as the people who wrote the older classics.
> So what makes you think you or your compotemporary authors have some unique insight just because you happen to be living at the moment?
Because you just stated in the previous sentence that they are soon to be considered classic?
> So reading the classics will cure you of that too.
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- jacobolus 6y agoThe best current books will (if people still keep reading them in the future) become “classics”. Most current books will be forgotten, just as most books from the past have been forgotten.
- jkdfgljk 6y ago>...soon to be considered classic? It was "classic", not classic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes