1. Once an author writes a book it might belong to them in terms of copyright but it also belongs to the world as a creation. But some writers try to self-cancel. Some thoughts on this with reference to Rosemary Tonks, Sidney Hook, Kafka, Virgil, Seuss, James Gould Cozzens, etc. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1368202799935332352 …
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11. If you read Kafka's oeuvre, you are doing so in violation of his will. There's no easy answers here: what should be preserved is always going to be a contest between writers, estates, and the reading public. Hard to find a solution to please everyone.
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12. One takeaway is that despite the culture war certainties offered in the Seuss debate, we're dealing with a complex area of competing just clams. I think looser copyright after writer's death helps sort some of this out by removing a veto point.
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13. Tangentially, this is another place where the cancel culture hysteria, if it were based on what it claims to be, would look to policy solutions rather than performative outrage.https://twitter.com/alex_shephard/status/1368992283782176777 …
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Yeah, authors who want their works destroyed at death is one of the great sources of literature when their wishes are disregarded. Indeed, that's so common one wonders whether they actually thought it would happen. Ballers destroy their works while they live.
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Yeah, the failure to destroy while still alive can reasonably be taken as a statement in itself, a revealed preference as the economists say.
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Likewise the great Jewish mystic Rabbi Nachman. Fascinating book on Kafka & Nachman, Burnt Books:https://www.amazon.com/Burnt-Books-Nachman-Bratslav-Encounters/dp/0805242570/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kafka+nachman&qid=1615227692&sr=8-1 …
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High school students also want the Aeneid to be destroyed.
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Do we know this? I thought the idea was made up by Hermann Broch.
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Not so I learn. But the story may still be fictitious.
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Don’t forget Gogol.
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