/lit/ - Literature

>>11966353
>Doesn't it also go out of its way to be excruciatingly obvious with its references? As in, not 'then I saw Gollum' but 'then I saw Gollum, from The Lord of the Rings'.

That's more or less correct. There are a few subtle ones (when the main character gets trapped in a hyperbureaucratic indentured service job, he creates a fake name based on the protagonist of Brazil) but those are the exception.

Pic related is how many times the novel uses the word "classic" (as in "the classic 80s sitcom Full House)