On Sep 27, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Eric Beck wrote:
> On 9/26/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>> I would agree, with this qualification: A Dante, a Marx, a Pound
>> wants
>> readers BUT he/she can't let that shape his/her writing!
His desire for readers is what shaped Dante. That's why he wrote in the vernacular although the literary language was Latin. Every writer who pays attention to style is shaping the writing to the intended reader.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos