grubas t1_j6l1zzu wrote on January 31, 2023 at 2:03 AM

Reply to comment by Veryaburneraccount in The letters of T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale that were kept sealed from 1956 to 2020 have been released for free online by RunDNA

It was very much assumed that any reader would be able to recognize and know his references, at the very least they'd have to go hunting for it.

Plus it's like saying "ahhhh ahhh, Tenacious D ripped off Zeppelin in Tribute"....congratulations you missed the joke.

Veryaburneraccount t1_j6l37g9 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 2:12 AM

Yep!!

grubas t1_j6lsd05 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 5:46 AM

I mean we had Roman's in the 30s writing shit about Roman's in 300BC writing about Greeks in 600BC.

It's how you get sentences in Latin that you translate, and then require a 20 minute English explanation to understand who to the how. This is how you get nerds.