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RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus



It doesn't particularly.  It was just a response to this:

> I'm sure I'm missing something.  Could someone
> please point me to even *one* instance in the last
> two centuries -- why not, since the First Congress -- of
> an author whose work was a complete flop during the first
> 28 years and only then became seriously successful


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-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. C. Sessions [mailto:dcs@lumbercartel.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:06 PM
> To: DVD-Discuss
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 09:16, Richard Hartman wrote:
> > Dunno about authors, but it is not unusual
> > for artists to have to wait for a long time
> > (sometimes after death!) for their works to
> > become popular.
> 
> I'm not sure how this relates to incentive to produce.
> 
> -- 
> | May I have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, |
> |  the strength to change the things I cannot accept, and the   |
> |    cunning to hide the bodies of those who got in my way.     |
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> 
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