Only mediocres are obsessed with originality. Geniuses steal other people's stuff and just make it better than they ever could.Shakespeare didn't write a single "original" idea.
>>25261549Prose matters more.
>>25261549Catullus:"he who now goes through the shadowy journeythither, whence they deny that anyone returns."Shakespeare:"But that the dread of something after death,The undiscovered country, from whose bournNo traveller returns"Shakespeare was a fucking hack that ripped off Catullus
>>25261553>hack instead of geniusMidwit opinion, as expected.>>25261552I don't get if you're agreeing or if you think you're disagreeing.
>>25261549>bbyies first thoughts on artThough it is part of the process, there is more to art and the assemblage of good art. Stop posting this decade old meme garbage.
>>25261549Yes yes, we stand upon the shoulders of giants. We all do.
>>25261549Originality is best when balanced with an Aristotelian mean of the familiar. Too original and it's unrelated to anything we care about. Too familiar and it bores us. That's why re-inventing genre with an original twist is the most popular.
>>25261561>midwit opinionyou ctrl+c ctrl+v'd the concept of "midwit" into your brain from reddit most likely so it makes sense you mount a hostile reflexive defense against people saying "copying is bad"
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>>25261549shakespeare was an incredible original, what are you talking about? stop coming up with artificial opinions just to appear knowing.>>25261553>Shakespeare was a fucking hackcome on man. you know you don't believe that. you know that originality doesn't preclude borrowings, interpolations, reworkings.>>25261613hanging out on places like /lit/ compels one to adopt terms like midwit, since at least then one has a name for the strange current of self-blinding, point-missing pseudery that's so prevalent here.to the midwits: please post about things you find genuinely interesting, not things you think make you look smart.
>>25261687>shakespeare was an incredible originalkindly an hero.none of his stories were original, he drew from pre-existing plays and oral traditions, even romeo and juliet wasn't an original idea. he simply developed them better.
Geniuses understand that originality only exists in the execution of the idea, not the idea itself.
>>25261549 i wrote an entire novel in a language i inventedhere’s an excerpt>Uyy ghiok fay mxnnch qauril tu kon Balana There’s no exact translation to English
Yo dawg, I heard you like reading. A guy named Booker wrote a book about books, presumably so he could book while he booked
