'....this makes it difficult for me to understand the distinction
between good and bad authors, good and bad books [.... ]
all meaning would be supplied by the reader, the author's
very existence as a thinking being rather than a machine would
be quite irrelevant [ .... ] I've pushed the above throughout
this conversation, and I don't think anybody's even lifted a finger
to respond to it ...'
Nor, of course will they. Your antagonists are, in the main,
teachers who have too great an investment in a doctrine that
preaches Jack is as good as his master, that any bright young
student with his bright young mind plays quite as great part
in the realisation of Anna as ever did the Count Lev.
What better way to gain popularity with the aspiring polloi?
Scottie B.
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