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    Unknown poet submitted under famous name

    Unknown poet submitted under the name "John Ashbery." Got accepted by a major literary journal.

    http://tedhashberryman.com/2015/09/1...rican-hoaxery/

    In related experiments the editors rejected literary classics submitted as the works of unknown authors.



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    Last edited by Petar; 09-23-2015 at 05:33 PM.
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    What's that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dickens View Post
    What's that?
    Never mind.
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    The same dynamic that prevents people from voting for candidates unless the mainstream media approves of them, except that these people are actual professionals.

    Also explains the amazing ability these days of 'artists' to sell $#@!--sometimes literally--as 'art'.

    Very sad. Humans really are herd animals.
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    You only want the freedoms that will undermine the nation and lead to the destruction of liberty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rogue View Post
    Never mind.
    Why never mind? What never mind?

    Quote Originally Posted by acptulsa View Post
    The same dynamic that prevents people from voting for candidates unless the mainstream media approves of them, except that these people are actual professionals.
    But in the past they had to be approved by masonic lodges. Hadn't they?

    Quote Originally Posted by acptulsa View Post
    Also explains the amazing ability these days of 'artists' to sell $#@!--sometimes literally--as 'art'.
    But in the past they were selling body parts of the saints for similar prices

    http://reverent.org/holy_black_square/

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    A related study shows that famous writers have practically the same reader ratings as the unknown ones:

    https://www.goodreads.com/author_blo...t-prose-or-not



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