Somebody called Philip Roth [?] has predicted that in 25 years, the number of people reading novels will be much the same as the number of people reading Latin poetry today. I don't know what he means by Latin poetry but I can see what he's driving at. Is he right? He could be. I have long felt that the invention of first the word processor and then the web is gradually shifting the balance away from the reader and towards the writer, or as I have said in this blog, away from the blighter and towards the bleeder. Will this trend continue?
Not my cup of tea, but he is mainstream.
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-lesle