It's worth noting that even Shakespeare spent several decades during the Restoration being dismissed and defiled. (Those butchers even gave King Lear a happy ending.) And a lot of Roman and Greek work, (most stuff, really) spent centuries known only to monks copying and recopying it. Surviving to shape the future is rarely a matter of be…
It's worth noting that even Shakespeare spent several decades during the Restoration being dismissed and defiled. (Those butchers even gave King Lear a happy ending.) And a lot of Roman and Greek work, (most stuff, really) spent centuries known only to monks copying and recopying it. Surviving to shape the future is rarely a matter of being handed down generation to generation. It's much more often a matter of cycles of relevance and disinterest. As long as it's somewhere accessible and protected, that's really all that matters.
It's worth noting that even Shakespeare spent several decades during the Restoration being dismissed and defiled. (Those butchers even gave King Lear a happy ending.) And a lot of Roman and Greek work, (most stuff, really) spent centuries known only to monks copying and recopying it. Surviving to shape the future is rarely a matter of being handed down generation to generation. It's much more often a matter of cycles of relevance and disinterest. As long as it's somewhere accessible and protected, that's really all that matters.