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12887935 No.12887935 [Reply] [Original]

What does the fact that modern authors having to compete with dead men who were buried decades/centuries ago say about today's society?

>> No.12887949

Alexander the great was the only man to conquer Afghanistan and he did it while dead.
You just have to face the facts you suck and everyone that came before you was better

>> No.12887950
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>>12887935
Every time an author dies, there books should be censored and burned en masse. It's a doggy dog world, artists should not have to compete with a bunch of old european men to be successful in our society.

>> No.12887953

>>12887935
It says that society hasn't changed much.

>> No.12887964

>>12887935
A good work will continue to rise despite a never ending deluge of trash being piled around it.

>> No.12887994

>>12887950
>doggy dog world

>> No.12888007
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It says that modern fantasy authors are lazy conmen trying to make a quick buck and get butthurt when people tell them they actually have to put effort into their work if they want anyone to buy their books.

>> No.12888009

>>12887935
Because they can't compete with the future ones and some of those dead men united knowledge, virtue and language to a level that even today seems unbeatable, hence why.

>> No.12888012

>>12887950
>doggy dog world
This shit never fails to make me laugh

>> No.12888028

>>12887935
Women's Rights was a bad Idea

>> No.12888048
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>>12887950
YASSSSS QUUEEEEENNNSS!!

WE MUST DIG UP ALL OF THE CEMETERIES!

THEY ARE A CONSTANT REMINDER OF WHITE SUPREMACY!

DEAD PRIVILEGE!!@!!!

CORPSES HAVE NO PLACE IN THE INTERSECTIONAL PARADIGM!

MAKE WAY FOR EBOOKMARTS TO SELL ZEROBOXER AND JADE CITY AND TRANSGENDER NEWSPAPERS!

XENOSCIFIFANTASY-SELF-HELP IS THE FUTURE!!!

STEP ASIDE BIGOTED DEAD PEOPLE! YOUR TIME IS OVER!

>> No.12888052

If i were a social justice wario the first thing i would do would be to write a deconstruction of young adult fiction that destroys the entier genre. I will have become god after that.
Then i would get set on my magnum opus. A fantasy series that removes European mythology and incorporates African and middle eastern mythology.
It really is that simple. You have these lib shits running around thinking they have to put black people in the lord of the rings. No. They have to study ancient African/middle eastern history, folklore, and mythology, and situate a story in that context

>> No.12888079

>>12887935
is that Yoshitoshi ABe?

>> No.12888112

>>12887935
>Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.
Looks like it might be time to skip a step.
https://youtu.be/au3KwywbO_0

>> No.12888131

>>12888079
Correct

>> No.12888147

Has /lit/ turned to shit once and for all? I was absent for a few months and then this bullshit comes up. WTF.

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>>12888131
Cool!

>> No.12888161

>>12888147
You should leave and never come back

>> No.12888163

>>12888161
Probably for the best. Goodbye to all of ya.

>> No.12888169

>>12888147
What bullshit

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>>12888147
>thinking /lit/ was good a few months ago

>> No.12888193

>>12888163
Good luck!

>> No.12888211

>>12888163
See ya in the morning!

>> No.12888311

Meme humanities graduates are trying to justify their loan debt and proving their parents wrong that they still are the genius artist snowflake they thought themselves as.

>> No.12888396

>>12887935
>Read Homer
>Constant references to how good it used to be in the past
Our society is in decline; just like it was for Homer in his time, or Boethius in his.

>> No.12888432

>>12887935
>thinking literature is a "competition"
jesus christ this board is a mess