And some of us still see it as entertainment--I found The Pickwick Papers to be one of the funniest books I ever read, and Sam Weller is quite possibly my favorite book character of all time. There are parts of that book that made me positively roar with laughter, and others that made me cry. Sometimes, the entertainment of previous days survives as entertainment as well as art, just because it's GOOD.
Absolutely. But some stuff gets canonized that probably never was very good, either because it's early, or because it's "art." And other stuff that's perfectly good, at least as entertainment, gets "lost," at least for a long time, because it goes out of style, or becauze it's by a minority author, or because it's an early work that was destroyed.
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