/lit/ - Literature

And to be a pleb is to be the worst thing possible in the world of James. To fail to be a patrician, ethically or aesthetically, is to be damned. Real scoundrels and criminals don't exist in the world of James, they are simply beyond the pale. It's only too understandable that so many readers find his world stuffy and incomprehensibly boring. By their standards there was no real conflict at all.