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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.

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