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pfortunyyesterday at 12:55 PM3 repliesview on HN

Well, then poetry is not literature.


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nkriscyesterday at 1:40 PM

If it’s not written down, then that’s true.

Once someone writes it down, it is.

threatofrainyesterday at 1:38 PM

Sure in the context that you mean it’s an oral tradition.

thaumasiotesyesterday at 1:00 PM

No, the argument is even dumber than that. The person who writes a poem hasn't created any literature.

The person who hears that poem in circulation and records it in his notes has created literature; an anthology is literature but an original work isn't.

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