/lit/ - Literature

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>science fiction began in the 60s
Retards I swear

More like this?

The Night Land
Teacher/student

Who was right?

>"It is told in a rather clumsy fashion, as the dreams of a man in the seventeenth century, whose mind merges with its own future incarnation; and is seriously marred by painful verboseness, repetitiousness, artificial and nauseously sticky romantic sentimentality, and an attempt at archaic language even more grotesque and absurd than that in Glen Carrig. Allowing for all its faults, it is yet one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written." — H.P. Lovecraft

>"In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of darkness. Only a great poet could have conceived and written this story; and it is perhaps not illegitimate to wonder how much of actual prophecy may have been mingled with the poesy." —Clark Ashton Smith

How do I learn to write in that style?