Spoilers, it seems to me, also damage the experience of the character's reality -- that is, to you it's fiction, but to them it's their lives. Knowing what's coming tends to lift one out of that mindset. (It seems to me). My wife and I tend to read the same stuff, sequentially, and we're scrupulous about revealing anything.
That being said, I'll often seek out spoilers for things I have no intention of reading or watching -- The Village, say. But not pass them on.
I sort of think that there's a statute of limitations, though. I've posted discussions of On The Beach, Animal Farm, A Canticle For Leibowitz, The Caine Mutiny, and the like, putting in a warning but not being particularly careful. If a work is older than I am, and I'm talking to people my age and taste, and the details are in the culture anyway... That is, one already knows, going in, that it doesn't turn out well for Lenny at all.
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Date: 2011-11-09 09:49 pm (UTC)That being said, I'll often seek out spoilers for things I have no intention of reading or watching -- The Village, say. But not pass them on.
I sort of think that there's a statute of limitations, though. I've posted discussions of On The Beach, Animal Farm, A Canticle For Leibowitz, The Caine Mutiny, and the like, putting in a warning but not being particularly careful. If a work is older than I am, and I'm talking to people my age and taste, and the details are in the culture anyway... That is, one already knows, going in, that it doesn't turn out well for Lenny at all.