I can't agree with this--if an author wrote on sheets of
paper, how can the same papers fail to represent said
author's work? I can certainly see the advantages to
having access to certain documents, songs, literarty works,
etc. that might have influenced the author, but I don't
think that the absence of such detracts from the author's
individual work. Clearly it is the author's job to convey
his/her message through the available medium. If a (and
this is debateable) "better" medium comes along later, who
is to say that the author might have expressed the message
any more clearly simply because of new technology?
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Bob Solfanelli
solf@virginia.edu
http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~rjs7v/