/lit/ - Literature

You are all lost in a state of foolishness until you read Conrad.

I am inclined to look kindly on these computer-games. I have not played them myself, but by the kind favour of my friend and rival Mr. Wells I have had the use of one of his remarkable machines, and thereby been permitted to read the testimony of future times.
Are we asked to recommend those works which will entice the players of games towards our sphere? If self-promotion is permitted - which, judging by the example of Mr. Blackwood, it is - I would observe that my own modest work is well suited to a reader accustomed to the experience of 'immersion'. I have ever strived and always will to impress upon my readers the intimation of insight into the inscrutable darkness of which our world and our fellow men are composed, for if as I have said we dream alone (and what is a computer-game but a dream?) then only art's shared dream stands a hope of establishing and defending symbols and particulars which throw a little light (if only one to be drowned by) on our deepest selves and our relations with our neighbours. Two things I take as my idols: art, and labour. What is a game but labour as art?

I should say!