>And this is different from Virgil composing the Aeneid for Augustus
>or Irish bards singing about the noble deeds of the mythical
>ancestors of their hosts or monks making up stories of the saint
>whose bone is in the wall to encourage donations... how, exactly?
Brad, if you don't stop equating pre-bourgeois cultural practices with bourgeois ones, I'll have to run up one side of you and down the other (Carrol might even give me a hand).
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Todd