/lit/ - Literature

Couldn't help but notice the sex scene in Name of the Rose had an uncanny resemblance to this passage-- even including the word Spikenard. I'm certain the author of this fantasy book was inspired by Name of the Rose. But does this sort of metaphorical regurgitation have any historical roots?
>>15611340
I wonder if the Greeks were this uninterested about the Library of Alexandria burning as the zoomers and boomers are.

>>15425463
taught me a lot about the dark ages. I thought the conversations could have been shorter, especially considering how often characters would rattle off an endless amount of examples of something rather than just one or two examples. Or the endless descriptions of architecture, as they were figuring out a means to map the aedificium. It seemed like the book would bounce back and forth between beautiful prose and extremely technical details that needed to be slogged through.

Did anyone else notice that the sex scene had a ton of horrible similes just like Silk and Steel's sex scene? It even used the word Spikenard. What was up with that? I get that Adso was just quoting works of literature, but were all those awful similes actually real life literary references?

I don't think this is cringe but it is pretty awful.