>the greatest piece of literature ever made was never published and never shown to anyone until it was lost to time/destroyedwhat are the odds of this?
>>249834120%literature cannot be great until it has been readit is dead until made alive by the act of the non-author reading it
>>24983412Same with any art.
>>24983412Sorry man, I just really, really don't want anyone reading my diary.
>>24983421100%I will never publish and none of you are qualified to read my enlightening tome.
>>24983412Well there was that sensitive young man who wrote a beautiful magnum opus, uploaded it and then threw his laptop into a lake and killed himself. But within a few minutes the site that he uploaded it to automatically deleted it because it exceeded the file size limit. Anybody remember his name?
>>24983412We know with absolute certainty that several books are mentioned in old or ancient texts that have never been found and which would in all likelihood be on the same level of greatness as The Odyssey, The Gilgamesh Epic, King Oedipus. Moreover, most books in history are rotting away unread, uncelebrated, overlooked, forgotten. A lot of beauty stayed forever in whatever time it shined. The steam engine has been invented three times over, while many a song or tale of tremendous wit and beauty echoed away silently.
>>24983412about three fiddy
It could be any of the immemorial things from before the Flood.
