I’ve never been convinced that there’s any meaningful division between high culture and pop culture — I think there’s good stuff out there, and there’s stuff that’s not much good, and that Sturgeon’s Law applies to high culture and popular culture: 90% of it will be crap, which means that 10% of it will be amazing.

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British author, screenwriter, fabulist
Blog entry (2009-04-02), “Apparently if you just write BEAVER! people’s minds head straight for the gutter”
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See Sturgeon.

 
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