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From: BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #346
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From: Bard Bloom <BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA>


> From: hyper!brust@topaz.rutgers.edu (Steven Brust)
> One test of literature that I'm particularly fond of is: how long is
> the author remembered?  This isn't one hundred percent; not matter
> how hard I try I cannot convince myself that Cooper was writing
> great literature.  BUT--what writer who is remembered and, more,
> STILL READ after a hundred years failed to write stories or books
> that were fun to read?
> 

Just to be obnoxious, the author of Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan?  If I can't
get his name right, my claim's a lot weaker).  I've never heard of anyone
who liked Pilgrim's Progress, and I hang around English professors a lot.

Most people don't read it voluntarily, though.  

Pax VAXque vobiscum,

   Bard
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