/lit/ - Literature

>>11242002
the best art, the best simulation, has that realism without actually lapsing into the Real, which is why nerd culture just loves dark and gritty reboots, it's that same escape filtered to a more mature but still fundamentally infantile sensibility, instead of the image's being outgrown it grows with us (or provides the illusion of growth). it's like a test: how much of the real can we simulate without also having to reproduce our commitment to it? how can we re-create the grit of actuality without sacrificing the escapist core? or, how can we exorcise from actuality whatever it is that provokes our flight from it? and if we ever solve that little ditty, it's ogre

>>10124831
Elder scrolls