/lit/ - Literature

Meme characters come, meme characters go. But anime reaction images are eternal.

>>18681429
Give me a minute, I've got shit to do. I'll definitely get it done, though, before midnight tonight.

I'm currently writing the greatest work of literature of the 21st Century, which will glorify God and be read a thousand years from now. You'll know it when it starts to show up.

>>18248901
The bigger the cast, the bigger the story must be to give every character a sufficient amount of page time to develop their characters and show off all their nuances.

I'm currently writing a story of considerable size, which I plan to tell across numerous books; I'm still not sure how long, exactly, it will wind up being. My cast of characters right now numbers about 21, and it can only be that big because I know my story is of such size that I'll be able to give every one of them their due. And even among this big number of characters, I have four characters among them who are my "main main" characters, who I would truly consider the story's core protagonists.

If I were telling a shorter story I'd make the cast considerably smaller. You can't tell a small story with lots of characters and expect to treat them all with the attention that they truly deserve. Think of how huge Anna Karenina is. It NEEDS to be that big, because of the great size of the cast Tolstoy is working with.

>>17929171
Has the open criticism of democracy, and open disdain for the Enlightenment virtues of liberty and self-determination, shown up in "mainstream" philosophy yet? I realize that it's been in the meme circles for years. I ran in those circles for a while, and the energy from them is still ongoing. But does anyone know if any "serious" philosophers, in the broader academic and cultural sphere, have started to actively become anti-democratic? I always figured it was only a matter of time before the meme philosophers, of which Land himself is one, started to have their weird and deeply reactionary ideas bleed into mainstream philosophical thought.