/lit/ - Literature

Lord of the Mysteries has smart characters written stupidly.

Lumian Lee from Circle of Inevitability is a smartly written smart character. When Lumian kills a hotel room full of three people he books the room next door so he can examine it, finding which walls he can stab and shoot through, where the openings are (e.g. doors, windows), whether there is enough space to break-dance, etc. This is a smart thing to do because Lumian is a smart person who is written by another smart person who understands how smart people think.

If Klein Moretti from Lord of the Mysteries were to kill a hotel room full of three people. He'd enter using a secret door in the hotel he found via divination. He'd throw a mystic item infected by True Creator ravings near one guy causing him to lose control, just like he planned. The second person would then immediately die just according to plan as well as Klein had earlier predicted that the woman would be torn to shreds by the first guy who turned into a mad monster. As for the third man, why Klein doesn't kill him at all. The third man removes his disguise to reveal he actually WAS Klein the entire time. But Klein just entered through the secret door and killed two people, how can there be two of him? The first Klein puts on a monocle to reveal "He" is actually Amon attempting to frame the Tarot Club. Klein, The Fool, however anticipated this, the two dead people stand up, they're fellow Tarot Club members Hanged Man Alger Wilson and Justice Audrey Hall, their deaths were just an illusion. "But Mr. Fool," Amon cries. "I am at a way higher beyonder sequence than you, so how could some random illusion fool me like that?" Because I am better at using the thing behind my Glabella, Klein inwardly Lampoons, the end.

This is retarded because Klein is a smart person written by a stupid person to whom smart people are indistinguishable from wizards.