or maybe the trend will change? it all follows the times, which warp
unexpectedly, becoming history.
KS
On 29/10/2007, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> One thing about sentimentality that's rarely mentioned is how easy it
> seems for contemporaries to accept as serious what from the
> perspective of later generations is ludicrously sentimental. Some of
> the things, for instance, in the 'Q' OBEV are so ludricrously
> sentimental that they're literally hard to read with a straight face,
> but presumably educated and intelligent people in their time read them
> without guffawing. I wonder what poems of our time, solemnly accepted
> as valid expressions of deep emotion today, will cause snickers a
> hundred years from now.
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