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[icycalm]

Might as well have a thread on this site as well. Here is a thread in which they try to figure out what is the difference between writing and literature, until an Insomnia reader comes in and sorts it out for them:

http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopi ... 957#864957

Human question:

Movies:Film::Stories:Literature

amirite?

I mean at this point (and maybe it's because I didn't finish college, nor studied English Lit while I was there) I wish someone would explain exactly what "literature" is supposed to be. Is it like pornography, where you just know it when you see it? Surely I wouldn't compare Needful Things (my first SK story, and one I'd recommend to you itt) to Hamlet, but in the end aren't they both just stories, told with different degrees of floweriness?

Also Hearts in Atlantis.

Subhuman fagot response:

A story's (as we're defining things here, kinda stratified into high and low art) primary concern is with getting from point A to B to C, and literature is more interested in the possibilities of words on a page. It's about the expectations of the reader, not floweriness.

Subhuman fagot response:

What are you defining as floweriness? Expressive nuance? Polysyllables? It's kind of an empty accusation.

Human response:

ALL WRITING IS LITERATURE YOU SUBHUMAN SAGETS

[icycalm]

Even Wikipedia knows this:

Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature

But I guess this arcane knowledge has yet to filter down to the subhuman scum population of this planet.