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"Classics are only classics because they were written a long time ago and people just went along with calling them great and people today are too cowed to call out their flaws"Bogus, hilariously inept, flawed, incompetent argument. Don't even bring me such inferiority-complex issues. If you're a loser who can't hack authentic literature, just embrace that role. Top shelf hooch is not for everyone; someone's gotta drink Budweiser.
WTF???Feliks, I can't FIND the quote you're referring to, in this thread. Is there some sort of quantum-mechanical interthread hole through space-time happening?
AND... AT the risk of sounding repetetive... << AHEm... >>
WHY DID YOU DEFENESTRATE SAVINKOV???
Feliks wrote: ""Classics are only classics because they were written a long time ago and people just went along with calling them great and people today are too cowed to call out their flaws"Bogus, hilariously ..."
Hmmnmm. I recall reading the quote but it wasn't on this message thread. Feliks, the magician, has transposed time and space through the internet to bring a posting from another message thread to this one. Congrats! Now tell us your secret. How did you do it?
We need a technical term!!!How about... let's see... What probably happened is, there was a distortion of space-time (Probably caused by, or coincident with - Gotta be careful here! causality is dangerous territory when dealing with general relativistic mechanics... - an intense gravitational field/extremely dense object?). (Are there any extremely dense objects anywhere around Feliks?) such that two distinct points in space-time briefly occupied the same actual location with respect to the observer.
so what are we gonna call this... How about, "Thread Coincidation" - ? (THERe - I've pounced on a perfectly innocent unsuspecting noun and turned it into a verb; I'm definitely ready for the millenium!). A single word term would be better though - Any ideas?
For extra points, would the extremely dense object in the vicinity of Feliks have to have had *infinite* density (Or produced infinite gravitational acceleration?) in order to cause *identical* coincidence of two points in space-time?? Or would it just have to be denser than some threshold value...
(I can see this is going to ruin another evening... Oh well)
Duane wrote: "Are there any extremely dense objects anywhere around Feliks?"Other than himself? ;)
Gerd wrote: "Duane wrote: "Are there any extremely dense objects anywhere around Feliks?"Other than himself? ;)"
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I don't believe there are any more people who praise a classic because the pundits acclaim it than those who praise pulp fiction bestseller because it is currently so popular.
I am most fortunate in that i truly appreciated many classics. Yet there are those that are acclaimed as classics that I detest and doubt their validity to that category. Anyone doubting the veracity of this remark need only to check through my multitude of postings.
I love AS I LAY DYING, BROTHERS KARAMAZOV and MAGIC MOUNTAIN, but I found SANCTUARY, THE POSSESSED and DR.FAUSTUS boring and flawed. Same three writers and all novels were all critically acclaimed, but let's face it,despite what others may say, I and many posters here on GR have independent opinions.