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I'm getting the impression some aspects of writing are shared by humanities in general. More specifically, these are:

- a very small number of people can live by it alone,
- engaging in it is good for you,
- but unless you're in that very small group, it won't give you work.

Reading all this literary history that I'm doing is helping understand that certain viewpoints I just assumed were obvious, aren't; and that things that seemed weird in the past, was not so weird when considering that the viewpoint, or the way one considered reality, was quite different then.

But I don't think I can get work making such observations :) And if I could, historian (literary or otherwise) would probably not be my first pick!