#literariness

[yingdu-lover]

every time when i sit to read something I have to remind myself again and again of lu guangs words, "there is no hierarchy in creativity." because how can this dostoevsky possibly compete with yaoi-

[wayward-mobs]

re: all the posts about correct grammar going around

okay so guys let me tell you a story.

one upon a time there were two Renaissance play writers who were pretty much the same amount of popular at the time.

one of them used so many weird made up verbal shortcuts and dirty slang he was considered ~uncouth~ and had to change a bunch of scenes in a play when he was asked to perform for royalty...

critics compared him unfavourably to a much more literary writer who used Proper Highbrow English and scattered random bits of Latin through his writing, which was a way of showing off your nice formal education at the time.

our nice formal-english-speaking well-educated playwright was Christopher Marlowe, known among literary types for getting in bar fights and being a bit of a smug prick.

and the guy using too many weird dialect words and odd linguistic quirks and, okay, making too many dick jokes? was Shakespeare, writer of the single most fawned over body of writing in the entire english language.