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Re: [ARSCLIST] Long-term/preservation audio
On 07/07/03, stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> is
>> there any room in cyberspace for such trivia?
> The point is, if there isn't there should be! Although less enjoyable
> to listen
> to, it might well be more important to future historians than another
> copy of a
> pop hit (or of the head-of-the-government's speeches, which are
> probably preserved
> many times over in various forms!)
In the 18th century, a great deal of effort went into preserving in
print the sermons of various eminent divines. Nobody now would even open
these books.
We would give a lot for more diaries like Boswell's, full of everyday
trivia.
Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx