…all were rear view mirrors. And nobody knows why. And it wasn't even noticed at the time. But the novels of Scott and Dickens and everybody all start back 30 years before the publication date, just as a matter of course. The idea, again, of giving the…

…I'm talking about their artistic mode. Pop art, popular forms of entertainment, whether in the Elizabethan period are now, or in Dickens and Poe and Al Cap, are now regarded as serious investigations into the environment of the time. Dickens was intensely…

…are now, or in Dickens and Poe and Al Cap, are now regarded as serious investigations into the environment of the time. Dickens was intensely aware of the new changes in his time, as was Edgar Allan Poe. And these people only achieve artistic status…

…in some other time. As soon as the Alcaps are old enough, their precious art forms, as soon as Edgar Allan Poe and Dickens are regarded as absolute drivel by most of their contemporaries, but Edgar Allan Poe was regarded as a sort of artistic saint by…

…Poe was regarded as a sort of artistic saint by Baudelaire, by Valéry, move him out of his culture into another culture, move Dickens into Russia, and he's a great man, a great artist, and so on. This creates all sorts of confusion in many people's…