[Milton-L] Milton in The Watchtower

[Horace Jeffery Hodges]

Patrick Scott wrote:
   
  I am also reminded of an axiom in book history, the Pontifex Factor [after Ernest Pontifex's grandfather, the religious publisher in The Way of All Flesh]: "You sell more of a book to be given away than you do of a book to be read."

Carrol Cox responded:
   
  Ho Chi Minh disagreed. Publishing a resistance paper in Vietnam in the late 1930s, he rejected suggestions to make it free because, he claimed, people would not read seriously a paper given away.
   
  Jeffery Hodges retorts:
   
  Well, Ho Chi Minh didn't know about the internet! (Though I grant that taking seriously a lot of what's written there doesn't always come easily...)
   
  Jeffery Hodges


University Degrees:

Ph.D., History, U.C. Berkeley
(Doctoral Thesis: "Food as Synecdoche in John's Gospel and Gnostic Texts")
M.A., History of Science, U.C. Berkeley
B.A., English Language and Literature, Baylor University

Email Address:

jefferyhodges at yahoo.com

Blog:

http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/

Office Address:

Assistant Professor Horace Jeffery Hodges
School of English, Kyung Hee University
1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu
Seoul, 130-701
South Korea

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Seoul 131-771
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