18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
2:33 p.m.
In article <AANLkTintKUyFmzsp6GDtU6BDGL9o1AQ7dg=scKAuCa-=(a)mail.gmail.com>om>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
True, but I bet the "90 percent of everything is
crap" rule applied
back then as it does now.
I'm not so sure. Reading and writing wasn't commonplace and
transcribing scrolls wasn't commonplace. Paper was reused (re: the
Archimedes palimpsest <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest>)
which makes me think that stuff worth the trouble of writing down
probably wasn't crap.
I think the right adage is that 90% of the stories orally told at the
time were crap, but that those worth writing down were more likely to
be of the 10% non-crap variety.
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