/lit/ - Literature

>>18576103
I wouldn't go so far as to say Shakespeare invented personality but I loved Bloom and that was one of many insights I took from him. Some excellent, excellent interviews with him on YouTube that I enjoy watching sometimes when I can't sleep. He knew the joy of it.

>>18576109
He is terrific at building atmosphere. The collector is stifling, puts you in the head of a deranged lunatic. Creepy and satisfying.

>>18576116
I'm not sure if there is an official stance. The CCC seems worded in a way that emphasises unity and cooperation these days (part of the problem IMO). I'm sure if you asked Cardinal Sarah he'd tell you in no uncertain terms - highly recommend his books. In terms of AI text I'm not particularly worried, I have yet to read something written by an AI that moves me in the way a work of great literature does. They can produce at best a verisimilitude that is like a sheet of ice over a lake with no water. There's nothing there underneath and it won't connect. Apologies, I'm tired, but you get what I mean. Machines cannot think in the abstract from which all great art proceeds. It is logical for parents to allow a child to die in order for them both to live, it is illogical for both parents to die saving the child, but humans do the illogical. Could an AI ruminate on the afterlife in the face of suicidal ideation like pic related? It's too human.

How do I get over wanting to be a great novelist and poet when I’m terrible at both?