Re: guess who & when

heh... Good replies on both sides. But then if the writer is truly...and I
mean truly...only writing for him/herself, no one would ever know of it but
the writer, right?

Even imagining a writer who died, whose work was later discovered and then
published, you have to wonder...why didn't the writer destroy their work?

Jim

Cecilia Baader wrote:

> --- John Gedsudski <john_gedsudski@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Good work can't have meaning just for the writer.
> > If so, it reeks of self-indulgence and just doesn't work.
>
> Hear, hear.
>
> Although, I must (in the interest of slightly inebriated honesty, the sort
> that I suppose I will regret [although, hopefully, not in hand with any
> typos -- I seem to be extremely careful of them in this state] on the
> morrow) admit that if one is writing only for oneself, it doesn't actually
> matter if it works for anyone else, now does it?
>
> Best,
> Cecilia.
>
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