Tim Spalding writes:
>> It's not the case that _Pride and Prejudice_ is on the shelf in
>> the dining room; but _my copy_ of P&P is.
>
> I think there's a sort of misplaced Platonism in this concept. (This
> is also my problem with FRBR.) There is no "Price and Prejudice" in
> the sky, only copies situated in the real world.
I don't see that at all. Just because the work _Pride and Prejudice_
does not have a single physical instantiation does not at all mean
that it's not real -- any more than the author Jane Austen isn't real
now that she no longer has a physical body.
> "At mum's house" and "Victorian" may divide alone item/work, but
> what about "English class"?
What about it? It seems pretty clearly a property of the work rather
than of the item.
> (The latter is very personal, but the physicality isn't
> important--maybe you lost your copy and got a new one.)
Right -- which is why I argued that the important distinction here is
not between Personal and Public tags, but Work and Item tags.
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Received on Mon Feb 26 2007 - 03:51:03 EST