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Old 05-10-2024, 01:13 AM   #2701
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Old 05-10-2024, 01:33 AM   #2702
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I've never seen that, I guess my reading isn't culturally important
Which books have you seen it on? Am I too cynical if I guess they are overwhelmingly written by white men?
Do a quick Internet search on it. That phrase has been used too blasted often.
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Old 05-10-2024, 01:43 AM   #2703
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I guess my reading isn't culturally important, either. I've never seen it.
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Old 05-10-2024, 01:45 AM   #2704
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I've seen it a couple of times. Pompous was the kindest description that came to mind.
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Old 05-10-2024, 05:39 AM   #2705
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"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible."

If I see that paragraph one more time...
I've never seen that, I guess my reading isn't culturally important
Which books have you seen it on? Am I too cynical if I guess they are overwhelmingly written by white men?
Maybe one prolific publisher of PD texts on Amazon, mostly from Gutenberg and not well formatted.

I don't think it's to do with "white men" as such. They are just stupid and arrogant.

It's often not even true.
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Old 05-10-2024, 06:10 AM   #2707
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I've never seen that, I guess my reading isn't culturally important
Which books have you seen it on? Am I too cynical if I guess they are overwhelmingly written by white men?
From the search I just did. Seems like it's attached to a lot of really really boring books.

I guess they can make these books seem important since nobody will read them anyway.
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Old 05-10-2024, 03:46 PM   #2708
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"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible."

If I see that paragraph one more time...
It Google Translates as 'We stole this from Gutenberg. Don't blame us if the formatting sucks.'
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Old 05-10-2024, 04:15 PM   #2709
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It Google Translates as 'We stole this from Gutenberg. Don't blame us if the formatting sucks.'
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