Showing posts with label The retirement of learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The retirement of learning. Show all posts

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Which books should we burn?

Welsh pensioners are buying books as fuel. Discounting differences in book size, and assuming you could gather all copies of the same title, which books would you burn?

On his deathbed, the poet Virgil requested his friends to burn his "Aeneid". Does an author have the right to do this?