/lit/ - Literature

>>19543911
>It's interesting you bring up Infinite Jest a lot as a point of comparison, I've never read it but I'm interested in the maximalist/metafiction elements, although you seem to be drawing connections more between the prose styles and imagery.
well i felt like i was reading borges if anything, with all of the required 'fire plus algebra', but a ton of sort of soft creative parallels came up in tandem with (maybe you aren't aware) the fact that IJ is largely about a film called IJ that's so entertaining it turns you into a zombie if you so much as see a single frame of it, so you can't learn about it first-hand, you instead sort of circle around rumors & backstory to learn about what it is, a lot like your story played out. (another probably silly coincidence is, you mentioned CS Lewis as inspiration, well guess which writer threw The Screwtape Letters at the top of their 'top ten favorites' list?) But anyway the best part is, yup you said it, that canny verisimilitude

>It's hard to know how to respond to genuine praise like this
>Forgive me if the comments I made about creativity seemed patronising.
ah dw, my mind never went that far. wanted to get all that out while it was hot off the press & u're still here & writing all that down also helps me remember what struck me. for possible future reference my unofficial namefag is y-anon, or maybe now i should just go by
>the adoring f-anon
>Golly, you're the best! I'm going to follow you and watch you and worship the ground you walk on! Let's go!