The web, good for art, says Bryan Appleyard. Great thinkers and poets, you can find them, in that long tail.

I could go on, but the point is clear: it’s all out there, from a video of Heidegger on YouTube to all the sheet music you’ll ever need for your euphonium at music-scores.com. The web is what you make it, the long tail is what matters, and all you need to make sense of it is what Stevens called a “blessed rage for order”. And you don’t have to take my word for it – you can hear him say it now.

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