/lit/ - Literature

>>22245742
>you know it when you see it
Consider the possibility that art can't be reduced to its smallest components. Prose isn't something you engineer, and it's not subject to a discrete set of criteria under which it can be evaluated. Engineers HATE this. It's why they stick to science fiction and fantasy. These genres are literally overrun and filled to the absolute fucking brim with bored engineers whose retarded, concrete viewpoints are wholly inapplicable to art. Again, this is why they write science fiction and fantasy. Without the tropes and guidelines of genre they are wholly adrift. Point being, it doesn't matter if the quality of your prose can't be distilled down into its smallest axioms and examined with a microscope. Art is under no obligation to be comprehensible or reproducible. Deal with it, nigger!