Re: RARA-AVIS: The definition of classic

From: Allan Guthrie ( allan@allanguthrie.co.uk)
Date: 04 Nov 2007


So what's your criteria for passing the test of time?

Al

----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Robison" < miker_zspider@yahoo.com> To: < rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:51 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: The definition of classic

> Allan Guthrie wrote:
>
> With more and more publishers using POD technology to
> keep their backlist in print at minimal cost, soon
> everything that's published will pass the test of time
> by staying in print forever. When everything is a
> classic, the term becomes -- more obviously --
> meaningless.
>
> **************
> You can prop the dead up with a stick, but don't call
> them alive.
>
> miker



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