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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (58654)	9/18/2002 2:10:20 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Tragic for him, but it gave us a great piece of writing that has given pleasure to millions of children (and adults). One has to wonder, was the trade off worth it? Worth it, of course, for whom is the other question. Worth it for readers today? It's easy to say that if the suffering was necessary to produce the work, it was worth it for the sake of our culture. After all, he could have been the one who died in childhood. Worth it for him? Unanswerable. Worth it for us considering it as individuals? I wondere. If you had the choice to suffer that way with the certain knowledge that only in that way could you produce a work which would last as a masterpiece throughout posterity, would you choose it?