Willeford has been dead for ten years now and plenty of
people are still
talking about him, so I don't know what crystal ball Ned is
using to
predict that no one will be reading him 50 (or 100 depending
on which
post we're talking about) years from now, but I think
Fitzgerald himself
might get a laugh out of that prediction. When F. Scott died
he was
considered a has-been and none of his books were in print. It
was not
until the fifties that his reputation began to grow again and
GATSBY was
hailed as one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century. If
Ned and
the internet had been around in the 1940's he could have
written his
posts about Fitzgerald and not received much of a
rebuttal.
Time's a funny thing....
TL
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