{"id":10707,"date":"2016-03-18T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/why-do-you-have-to-destroy-full-lyrics-notebooks-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:27:10","slug":"why-do-you-have-to-destroy-full-lyrics-notebooks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/why-do-you-have-to-destroy-full-lyrics-notebooks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do you have to destroy full lyrics notebooks? Space concerns or contractual obligations or compulsions or?"},"content":{"rendered":"

johndarnielle<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Because of the possibility, however remote in the near term, of somebody besides me getting their hands on them: at that point, they\u2019ll\u00a0\u201cshare\u201d (=make publicly available forever) them. To me personally the publication of people\u2019s work posthumously without their explicit permission is horrifying – obviously, there are plenty of social evils worse, I don\u2019t think people who read Kafka are monsters, it\u2019s human to want to read stuff by people whose writing you like. But I personally don\u2019t read Kafka: he explicitly asked his friend to destroy his stuff. (Some people like to assert that there\u2019s an ambiguity here<\/a> but I don\u2019t find the case at all persuasive and consider it a self-serving argument: \u201cI want to read it, so I choose the reading that suits me,\u201d essentially.) I won\u2019t read any Salinger that gets published in the coming years unless he left explicit consent for publication. I am pretty hardcore about this. For myself, although I never expect to be Salinger or Kafka level famous\/important, I know there\u2019s enough people who, while fine people, would do math that said\u00a0\u201cat the end of the day, I don\u2019t care what JD thought, I want to read these, and what does he care now anyway, he is either in the grave or the afterlife and this stuff doesn\u2019t concern him any more.\u201d Which is a totally tenable position by the way, just one I don\u2019t share. \u00a0For me it\u2019s a personal autonomy issue, which I think survives the grave, so destroy I must! I am a chicken about it though, because I\u2019m sentimental, so, for example, I still have the Tallahassee<\/i> notebook and most of the WSABH<\/i> ones and if I get raptured today then whoever loots my office will\u00a0\u201cshare\u201d the stuff that wasn\u2019t good enough to for me to personally share, and if I catch wind of it in Valhalla, then my soul will grieve, but no-one will care, because most people don\u2019t care anyway and besides that the living can\u2019t hear the moans of those that grieve in Valhalla.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

johndarnielle: Because of the possibility, however remote in the near term, of somebody besides me getting their hands on them: at that point, they\u2019ll\u00a0\u201cshare\u201d (=make publicly available forever) them. To me personally the publication of people\u2019s work posthumously without their explicit permission is horrifying – obviously, there are plenty of social evils worse, I don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-10707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-archives"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2MH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}