Greatest author of all times

OK if we're going to take this seriously it seems to me that all authors owe something the the early inventors of the craft. Depending on where you draw the line:) regarding what the origins of writing are; be they scratchings on bone indentations into clay or fancy pictures of birds and dog men on a tomb. Surely we have to face the fact that without that first guy/guyess deciding that things could be recorded for future recall then we would all still be rubbing sticks together and reading the entrails of pigs to see what the weather holds for the morrow.

So, as in my previous entries, I submit that the writers on stone are the greatest because they planted the seeds of all human recorded fact.

On so many levels the greatest writer is the guy/guyess who rarely signs his name, We all know him/her and everyone on the planet who can has read his/her work s/he is called :-

ANON

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing
 
JD,

No the "you" named in the question is not ambiguous. Your (one's) judgement is subjective; that it is "you" asked for your judgement is objective. There is no discrepancy or doubt about who is requested to be the judging agent.


But then it could all be a conspiracy of ravens.
 
Urien said:
JD,

No the "you" named in the question is not ambiguous. Your (one's) judgement is subjective; that it is "you" asked for your judgement is objective. There is no discrepancy or doubt about who is requested to be the judging agent.


But then it could all be a conspiracy of ravens.
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Grammatically speaking, yes, the "you" is an object. When relating to the information required, however, "you" is entirely subjective, unless that "you" applies some form of objective criteria... in which case, we're right back where we started.....

EDIT: At any rate, we seem to be talking in circles with this, and probably best to simply let the thread go back to its original intent....
 
Then there's the song that nearly every English speaking person (and a few other languages too) repeats every year probably four or five times. Everyone knows the song however according to Wiki actually setting the words down in print/cyberspace could land us all in trouble.

Surprisingly according to Wiki (but I have heard this elsewhere) the words to the song are relatively modern.

Please check the Wiki entry regarding copyright and do not quote the song in any way

It is the song

Joyful celebrations on the anniversary of your day of birth


Happy Birthday to You - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Surely this is up among the most read and repeated works. It my not be the most in depth analytical piece of prose or even hold a candle :eek: to Williams efforts but it sure does get the point across and not everyone has read Shakemyspear but they sure have made that wish.
 
Back to Will Shakespeare... couldn't a good case be made for his being the greatest FANTASY writer of all time, besides being the greatest overall? Much of his plotting is either pure invention or a rewrite on actual history to further an idea. Midsummer's Night and the Tempest would have to qualify as out-and-out fantasy of the first order.... just sayin... that's what makes Shakey the best...
 
ghostofcorwin said:
Back to Will Shakespeare... couldn't a good case be made for his being the greatest FANTASY writer of all time, besides being the greatest overall? Much of his plotting is either pure invention or a rewrite on actual history to further an idea. Midsummer's Night and the Tempest would have to qualify as out-and-out fantasy of the first order.... just sayin... that's what makes Shakey the best...
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Totally. I'd even go so far to say that The Tempest is the Elizabethan equivalent of SF if you transplant the notion of new lands for new worlds. A space opera in tights, if you will...
Certainly, it caught the ages fascination for exploration and furthers that idea.
 
TheEndIsNigh said:
Surely we have to face the fact that without that first guy/guyess deciding that things could be recorded for future recall then we would all still be rubbing sticks together and reading the entrails of pigs to see what the weather holds for the morrow.

So, as in my previous entries, I submit that the writers on stone are the greatest because they planted the seeds of all human recorded fact.
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if you are going to go that far back, you have to go further back to those who told stories before writing was invented.

those who told tales to attentive audiences and passed on those stories orally to those who followed them.

if it hadn't been for them, there would have been nothing to write down in the first place
 
ghostofcorwin said:
Back to Will Shakespeare... couldn't a good case be made for his being the greatest FANTASY writer of all time, besides being the greatest overall? Much of his plotting is either pure invention or a rewrite on actual history to further an idea. Midsummer's Night and the Tempest would have to qualify as out-and-out fantasy of the first order.... just sayin... that's what makes Shakey the best...
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Oh , most certainly. Not only did he write fantasy , he got people to accept it as FACT. For instance , many people to this day still believe that Richard III was a cripple.
 
Of course some people would argue that Shakespeare was the greatest authors of all time.
Or should that be Shakespeare were the greatest authors of all time?
 
Vladd67 said:
Of course some people would argue that Shakespeare was the greatest authors of all time.
Or should that be Shakespeare were the greatest authors of all time?
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Oh, great. Here we go again with this old chestnut...:rolleyes:
 
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If we're going to mention Shakespeare, we should also mention Aristotle who invented the theatric principles used by Shakesepeare.
 
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