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When do we hit maximum threshold? Bearing in mind that no generation knows it's literary achievement, and only a select few of us will realize our ages masterpieces: one has to consider how much longer we can build a canon. Our increasing adaption to lateral intelligence storage has given us the ability to deal with the quantity of literature we've already accepted as important; but this is only a stopgap measure. The classic novel is becoming a liability. There is an inability to read and comprehend the entirety of classic literature already. How can we continue to grow this collection?

>> No.551137

We write.

>> No.551142

>>551137
seconded

>> No.551143

Stop thinking about it and write.

>> No.551145

To the extent that anybody could attempt to answer this question, that attempt wouldn't be anything other than conjecture. Not of interest.

>> No.551171

This is the wrong question.

It should not be how can we expand.

There is ink in our veins.

You can not stop the expansion.

We will always be driven to live and thus to write.

>> No.551196

Our goal should be to do what we do, write what we write, and hope that it is representative of our society and our time and place in the world... creating a type (or against type) and structure (or structureless) tearing down (or building up) of previous literature in order to make ours our own and not just rekindled swill. This is what we should hope for and that would be nice, yes.

>> No.551220

OP is talking out of his ass.

>> No.551238

Spoiler: The canon is revised with every new generation. Voltaire was hailed during his lifetime as the master of nearly every literary form. Nowadays he's famous for Candide and little more. 50 years from now no-one but whiny old people will know who J. D. Salinger was.

>> No.551241

>>551220
Burroughs is dead don't be absurd.

>> No.551245

>>551241
Spoiler alert: OP is humorless fag

>> No.551252

>>551245
I'm not Colm Tóibín don't be absurd.

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>>551252

>> No.551262

>>551252
I am Albert Camus, I MUST be absurd!

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551276

>>551262
The real humor in The Stranger comes from the candid way Camus leaves us watching Meursault desperately trying to convince himself that if he thinks more existentially he will cease fearing his impending death.

>> No.551287

>>551126
What is "lateral intelligence storage" and what is our adaptation?

>> No.551297

>>551276

I don't know, this is one of my favourite literary passages, and I think it shows that Meursalt accepted his fate almost entirely. Call it unrealistic if you'd like, but I think it's too lucid to be desperate.

>I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.