/lit/ - Literature

>>9380720
And yet, the superior white man, despite his remarkable intelligence, let those "idiotic cultural memes which lead to his self-destruction" settle in his country.

>>8479188

If you're feeling the urge to use lots of witticisms then you don't have a clear idea what you actually want to communicate to the reader with that particular dialogue. First figure out what message you want to communicate, then write the dialogue that delivers it. Unlike with real life, good writing has a message behind every moment included in the story. If every word your characters speak serves the higher level agenda of your overarching plot, then their personal participation in wit will be superfluous.

There is no way to force others to agree with your definition of literary quality. Most people have an artistic quality definition of "Whatever gives me joy" and their definition of joy is their own and may vary from time to time.

What the academia-media-publishing industrial complex and its pseudo intellectual hangers on (i.e., /lit/) seeks to do is band together to form a large group with a common definition of literary quality, a definition which may not be honestly believed by individual members of the group. This gives them many advantages, one of which is relevant to /lit/: the ability to claim to have a superior intellect or literary knowledge based on their literary preferences.

This same pattern repeats itself among many groups.

Yi-Fen Chou