/lit/ - Literature

>>17801393
Imagine if, all of the sudden in 1998 100 different writers, not in contact with each other, all in different areas of the world, were all inspired to write the script for Diehard and the only major difference between most of the works is the amount of dudes that Hans Gruber brings along with him.

>A thousand voices have repeated and commended this thought; yet, so far as I known it, it has not occurred to any person to give it the completeness which it warrants. Let us suppose that printed characters, scattered plentifully in the air, should, on coming, to the ground form the Athalie of Racine; what would be the inference? That an intelligence had directed the fall and the arrangement of the characters. Good sense will never conclude otherwise.

>>17226454
And yet monarchies last for millennia, even changing dynastic hands, without any major social upheaval to the governing process. But no democracy has even approached 500 years without collapsing.