>Heaney's readers are legion.
so were buyers of zx spectrums, so are spice girls fans, so were
conservative voters, so were those who thought the earth would end in
1666, so are homophobes, Lyly was much more popular than Donne, Thomson
than Wordsworth, Frost than O'Hara, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche were barely
read until the end of their lives, Heaney sells more than Prynne etc,
Gertrude Stein's essay 'What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few Of
Them' is a pretty accurate description of the necessary outcome, non legor
non legar said Nietzsche, tish
I'll bet you a pint that in 100 years, Heaney's a dust-caked curio for
venturesome PhD contrarians and sociologists
and we'll all go to heaven, suffering post-death toy-entryism, k
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