DtG: Nowadays people just wouldn't publish anything like it but, at the time, it was OK. As a social record of people's attitudes it is a fine example. I would happily sing it at a folk club, just as I would sing hunting songs without advocating hunting. Would you and why? If I would and you would not, it is proof positive we are not one person and nothing else. Artist and the planet Earth, for all time no less, all being on the same page of anything would be the so-called 'end times' methinks. And a bore to boot. Uncle Tom's Cabin... the most effective work of abolitionist art ever aaaand... oooooorrr hopelessly racist dreck. Or harmless symbols if one don't read the lingo at all. But it's just the one (1) book, not three (3.) Stephen King + 200 years is going to confuse a few readers about the times and the writer. You can bet on it, but you'll never collect.
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