/lit/ - Literature

>>11739026
he can't
if he could he would blabber about synchronicities and timelines and memes and other shit that he's too self-aware to venture into in a serious discussion
he just wants to believe

Being dead inside is the end goal of intellectualism. You're finally equipped to live.

So I've been thinking a lot about aforementioned but not in a sad, gloomy depressing kind of way but more in an optimistic manner. Whenever I read stories that are kinda glamourised in a medieval era manner they always seem to be so casual about death. For example some fisherman decides to go to a river, retrieve a lamp and a genie appears and proclaims that he will kill him because he is mad no one found him sooner.

What the hell? This is a short story in the 1001 Nights I think. Then it got me thinking, "Man, wouldn't it be so cool if I could meet all these people who killed by the whims of stuck up gods and mystical powers?" or something. Of course death is relevant in any modern story but it just seemed way more relaxed in older books.

I'm looking for formally experimental fantasy works. Anyone besides Gene Wolfe (whom I've been reading) that I need to check out?

I'm disappointed that the greentexting current WIP novel thread did not take off. I wanted to see what people were writing about.