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by relaxing 725 days ago
I’m missing the point where that’s not happening. Is it that a book is not oral transmission?
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jonahx 725 days ago
Correct it is a book. The analogy to what's going on now is not "oral evolution" but the OG bowdlerization of Shakespeare by Bowdler himself, and we (rightly) see that today as ridiculous.
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