/lit/ - Literature

its all relative I guess

>>7286197
Everything is relative.

>>7286192
Societal impact

More people read the first one

You were born too late. But don't worry. Let memes cushion the fall.

how would you know

>>7286192
Seniority.

After you're dead, they'll like it though.

>>7286539
It doesn't matter if someone compose the 9th Symphony equivalent nowadays. Beethoven is better because he's older.

>>7286557
according to...

>>7286192
because a trully good piece of work needs to be digested through multiple audiences and repeated reading. it's not a big mac and writing isn't the way to get quick appraisal unless you just want to sell a lot and then be forgotten

>>7286567
literally millions of fanboys

Because too few people have experienced, heard about and were influenced by the new work.

But don't worry about such things, OP. There's no chance you'll ever make something as good as a classic work. You won't be underrated, I promise.

>>7286588
and this is relevant because?

>>7286192
People should give up on the originality meme and just make solid stuff.

>>7286569
Please be my waifu Hibari-chan :3

>>7286597
LOL, let's talk about the so-called "classics," won't we?

Homer was literally some guy who got drunk and sang songs. What a fag lol

Shakespeare was a PLAYWRIGHT, and was married to one of the least attractive actresses of his day.

Virgil? Take one letter out of his name and what do you get?

Historians have found Dante had a closet FULL of fedoras lmao

I mean COME ON.

>>7286625
This has pasta potential.

>>7286625
2/10
Way too obvious. Try again.

>>7286192
In time it won't necessarily be.

If you make a friend who is as good as an old one you will still appreciate the loyalty of the first friend.

It's not a bad thing and its not like the new work will get 0 appreciation.

Also in time its not just quality that is taken into account but also influence. Many masterworks are not influential.

>>7286643
Are you that guy who wrote Beowulf? Or what was that other one called ... The Epic of ... Dildomesh? Dildomech? heh How's that working out for you?

>>7286625
irgil
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hey

>>7286192

Nobody is "supposed to" actually do anything LMFAO.

>>7286625

Literally 100% correct

>>7286704
that's it mayn

>>7286608
>>7286608
i'm pretty sure you don't need to ask permision for someone to be your waifu, /a/ would be in trouble otherwise.
but you should now that my internet heart belongs to Deep & Edgy,

>>7286754
Parece que causas furor allí por donde pasas.

>>7286192

>>7286569
This is a good answer. The canon of literature shifts with time, but there are obvious cornerstones that shaped storytelling in ways too vast to ignore. Some classics now may disappear with time, but things like Homer and Virgil will remain simply BECAUSE they are good AND old.

>>7286192
Because you did it at a time when that classic was already old news and had been digested and regurgitated by the masses where likely you got it from at least in part or whole. Also you are a dickmouth and nobody likes you.

>>7286192
Shoulders of giants and stuff. /sci/ducks reinvent calculus in middle school all the time, because there's so many people and our curriculum is obviously leading towards it. In the modern would you get so much exposure to literature and practice writing and so much access to stuff, that there's a lot of literature that is better than most pre-twentieth century literature, and it's not as impressive.