/lit/ - Literature

>>20974435
>a diamond dozen
I know what you mean but you are wrong when we are at the point of worthwhile or even valuable intellectual property, which is implicit to this discussion.

Doctors are not paid well because of their skills, they are paid for their responsibility. They aren't even necessarily skilled per say, they are trained, but that's splitting hairs.

>500 pages
>2 chapters
>first chapter 488 pages

>hitherto
>erstwhile