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>"The famous flutings on the famous columns--what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood--when columns were made of wood, only these aren’t, they’re marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?"

>>3617336

" R A N D ॐ " .

YOU MEAN THE BOOK THAT ONE LIKES THE MOST.

FROM NONCONTEMPORARY LITERATURE:

STYLISTICALLY: "LOLITA".

CONCEPTUALLY: "ATLAS SHRUGGED".

>Am I wrong?

YES.

JUST BECAUSE YOU DISLIKE IT DOES NOT ENTAIL THAT IT IS "WRONG", OR THAT YOUR OPINION OF HOW A NOVEL OUGHT, OR OUGHT TO NOT BE, IS STANDARD.

A NOVEL CAN BE WRITTEN IN MANY FORMS, OR STYLES.

WHY ARE YOU EVEN TRYING TO "CONVINCE" HIM THAT IT IS "WRONG"?

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THAT?

>>2431773

I LIKE FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE'S PERSONA, AND I LIKE AYN RAND AND AYN RAND'S PERSONA.

MAYBE THEY HAD "BETTER" TRANSLATORS THAN YUKIO MISHIMA.

MAYBE YUKIO MISHIMA'S PROSE WAS ACTUALLY "DULL".

MAYBE HIS PROSE WAS "DULL" BECAUSE HIS ENERGY WAS NOT SPENT SOLELY ON WRITING, BUT ALSO ON POLITICS, MARTIAL ARTS, "MILITARY AFFAIRS", ETCETERA.