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Is entertainment a worthy purpose for literature, or should literature always aspire to higher ends like the instructional (how we should behave- moral or religious teaching, communism, wokeness, social activism), or the educational (in the driest possible sense, such as transferring knowledge and skills efficiently)?

>> No.16917543

>>16917536
Entertainment is very much a worthy purpose for literature. There are even those who find entertainment in instructional and educational books.
What's life without a bit of fun?

>> No.16917543,1 [INTERNAL] 

no.

>> No.16917565

>>16917536
None of the above. Literature, as a form of art, must act as the vehicle of the divine. Pure aesthetic experience is its only worthy purpose.

>> No.16917971

>>16917565
>Literature, as a form of art, must act as the vehicle of the divine.
Wish-fulfillment is solidly in the sphere of entertainment.

>> No.16917996

>>16917971
Is that what lower men like yourself believe?

>> No.16919787

>>16917996
youre on 4chan. Dont act like youre better than anybody

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>>16917536
it doesn't need a utility. It is an art.
thought like this is what leads to so much dilettantism and sophistry.

>> No.16919836

>>16917536
I only use the craft to express my infinite hatred for people, nature, the world, and life itself.