Dragaera

OSC on the virtues of writer's block

Gomi no Sensei gomi at speakeasy.net
Thu Dec 4 15:02:21 PST 2003

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Matthew Hunter wrote:

> Those quotes embrace contradicting opinions on the value of
> tradition, you realize.  One uses sarcasm to suggest that
> adherence to tradition is silly; the other is a quite
> straightforward statement of principle.

Ahem. Burke was not being sarcastic, and neither was I in quoting him.

> In other words, tradition cumulative result of the prior
> generations saying "This is what we did, and it worked."

Precisely so.

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