/lit/ - Literature

>>22462576
this thread is AI generated and as such should be treates as a conversation with chatGPT.

>>21818669
It's pretty simple, my little potato. Fiction is usually a means of escapism. It lets you ride along with a main character, a hero if you will, who fights through these bazillion to one odds and (usually) comes out victorious. Everybody loves an underdog tale because they imagine that they are just like that underdog. The flip side of the coin is the "OP slow-life isekai fantasy" shit you see /a/ pump out, but that's still a form of escapism at least for the city-dwelling bugmen in the land of the rising sun. No one wants to read a SoL about some nameless bumfuck who goes to work every day, comes home to a fabulous microwave tv dinner, and falls asleep ad infinitum.
Let's face it, reality fucking sucks for a lot of people, so why would you read about someone else's life sucking when you are already living the nightmare? No, you are going to want to escape reality and be the hero of the story. and that's going to require fictional elements to go beyond the doldrums of typical daily life.

>>21545540
desu anon I fell down a rabbit hole of 'things to read in order to understand Dante and Shakespeare' Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Apollodorous OT, NT, Apocrypha, Ovid, then I discovered there was even more... and more... and more...
and I still have not read Dante or Shakespeare.
Things are starting to get out of hand now, I just wanted to understand The Inferno and instead I am catapulted on a wild ride, with seemingly no end.

>read 1 book
>add 10 new books to read

everytime
when this nightmare ends?

>>17775949
>Once the pandemic's over
oh boy will the ride end? at this point it feels like there will be always a new "more powerful" strain and "wave" lurking around the corner

The earth is billions of goddamn years old. Life at least one billion. LIGHT would take tens of billions of years to cross the universe. LIGHT! And we don't even know how big it is because the observable universe is smaller than the whole thing!

And you MISCREANTS carry on with your flat-earth miracle-man woo-woo from the Bronze Age! Because it gives you feefees! Warm and fuzzies!

The arrogance! The absolute will to stupidity! Who the fuck are you!? You stand on the shoulders of giants only to say
>please put me down
>I liked it down there better
And you teach your mental disease to CHILDREN! And when your 'faith' is fervent enough, you burn people alive!

YOU SHOULD UNIRONICALLY BE LITERALLY KILLED. YOU ARE FUCKING HORRIBLE