Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 28, 2015
October 27, 2015
October 29, 2015
Transcript:
Rat: In the past. If you had an important idea you wanted to express to the world. You needed a typewriter and the post office and an agent and a year of waiting and a publisher and a chain of bookstores and then maybe you got a reaction. Goat: And now? "I'm eating sausage links. 44 comments: Honey248: Sausage suxxx IB4everyone: Sausige ROCKS!!! DerekTCA161: STOP KILLIN ANIMALS" Rat: Let's go back to the old way.
I wonder if we’d have more Shakespeare if he’d have have a way to produce his work faster. If we assume for the sake of argument that there would be a ready market for more of the plays, poems, sonnets, that is. All of his output is worth reading, some is workman-like, but much is great, even sublime. Would more have been more of all those types of output? Or would the overall quality have suffered? I want to visit the alternate world where he created twice as much as here. Also the alternate world where Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx played Scarlett and Rhett.