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⌈ Secret Post #3498 ⌋

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Re: Unpopuar opinions

[(Anonymous)]

People should like what they want. And I do think that there are some things that are regarded as classics where what you say is pretty much true - we just can't access the way that people reacted to the text originally, because the innovative features aren't innovative anymore, and the rest of it is sort of whatever.

But I do think there are good reasons to read classics.

First, many of them can be very entertaining, or emotionally affecting, or whatever. You can just, you know, want to read them.

Second, it may be the case that although the techniques that the classics used became standard, the classic is still the best example of those techniques. For instance, Proust is someone I would point to here - I don't think anyone has really gotten to the same point with the kinds of things that he was doing.

Third, it may be the case that the way those techniques were used was distinctly different in the classics, or that they were combined with other techniques that we nowadays wouldn't combine them with, or that there was something particularly distinctive in the connection between the techniques and the time or the culture that you won't find in other works. I can't think of an example and I'm bored of writing this post.