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摘要

In an essay, "The Catastrophe of Success", Tennessee Williams wrote that "security is a kind of death, I think, and it can come to you...anywhere at all that is removed from the conditions that made you an artist." That may offer comfort to the thousands of writers in Los Angeles and New York who went on strike this week, risking their incomes and careers. They want more money for their work when it is used online than Hollywood studios are willing to pay. Because the strike is over matters of principle, not just dollars and cents, it could last for months.