Quote: "A work is great when..."

[Jonathan Lighter]

One of my favorites - of arguable soundness, of course - that I don't find anthologized. Is it in _Yale_ ?:

  1936 C. E. M. Joad _Return to Philosophy_ (N.Y.: E. P. Dutton) 235: A work is great, when it has ceased to matter that it is bad.


  JL


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