Can the orignal impulse be preserved somewhat if the revisions are faithfully kept and on-line workshopping might tend to develop a kind of collective memory of the original impluse spread throught the various critiques referred back to. Revisiing a translation or a large work might be a different case. Isn't "Leaves of Grass' considerered Whitman's single work. Does anyone know how much it was revived by him during his lifetime?
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