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Re:How to live an intellectually rich life by KineticLensman on Friday May 02, 2025 @11:54AM (#43871456)
Yes, exactly. A lot of people forget that he wrote ‘plays’ and not ‘reads’
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Re:How to live an intellectually rich life by mr_toad on Friday May 02, 2025 @12:49PM (#43872152)
He had to; a large part of his audience would have been unable to read.

A lot of European literature was poetry for the same reason. Its only because literacy rates have risen that prose has become more popular.

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