/lit/ - Literature

>>18391392
>>18391437

It was about manners I think. communicating information wasn't enough, you had to do so while flattering the intelligence of your audience. This is done in many different ways, complex grammar, addressing the reader directly and assuring him that the author is aware of his insight and intelligence, but will nonetheless explain things in the following passage for the sake of progeny and literary accuracy... etc...

Things like that. IMO makes for a much more engaged reading experience. Now everything is written like some incel screaming at his mom who doesn't care about what he has to say.

The confidence that these people had in their writing is remarkable, they were certain that they were engraving their words into the very foundations of history, it was no doubt a result of the high intelligence that was required to collect and memorize information. There was no google, you had to memorize information and keep it at recall, and structure your writing so as to reference materials accurately and vaguely at the same time. This likely also participated in creating complex sentence structures. Everything was pouring out of their own mind, not footnotes, hyperlinks, or reference points, everything was demonstrated inline in the text.

>>18386567
Very lindy advice IMO.