/lit/ - Literature

>>21811524
>go to a bunch of book stores but can't find any version of the Song of Roland anywhere
>online website for McGill University says their library has it in stock
>I go to the McGill U library and look around
>after a moment I go to the person with the computer and ask them for it
>he shouts "song of what?" multiple times loudly after I try asking him what book I'm looking for
>condescendingly looks at me as I explain to him what it is
>tells me they don't have books like that there, that it's a university library
>asks me to go to Indigo or something like that after his computer yields no results

>>21789378
That already sounds better than a lot of stuff, if only because its structure is so incredibly different from what is common today. I once explored using the type of writing where every line or sentence was numbered the way biblical works are but even just something more similar to folklore from the 1800s would be enough. I grew up on Czech stories written in that time and much prefer them over the type of stuff that is written today.
I think that among the changes that need to happen is that everything needs to be said as though it happened a long time ago and not as if the reader is there with the people during the events. I feel like too much literature has this focus of detail that goes something like:
>"What do you mean?" He told her, clutching her head. "What do you mean we went the wrong way?" He repeated to what he found to be an empty room.
Too much literature focuses on telling you exactly what the characters are doing in what exact way and what they are thinking as they do it, I'm tired of this. I did not read all of LoTR but Tolkien had a very unique way to write that is very similar to the stuff he was inspired by, an older way to write.