🚀 go-pugleaf

I used to hate that...I remember reading Thomas Mann in high school and
being shocked that literature was more like puzzles, with all kinds of
allegorical readings possible, and often intentionally so on the part
of the author!

It's actually quite weird...stories that purport to reflect life
somehow actually are quite contrived -- and yet, that's not necessarily
bad, like how an actor achieves truth through lies (acting)!

The question is, what form can bear it all?  How to provide a secret
structure for the "hidden messages" such that it's all seamless and yet
makes sense once revealed?  Like polyphony, I imagine, in music....

What is the new form these days?  I hear about some German guy writing
in English who was not using any paragraph breaks in his novels.  I'm
also surprised that the old '80s "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" format has
hardly been adopted by adults, and abandoned for kids!



Eliot Coweye wrote:
> Yes, all you writers are Freemasons, or better Illuminati and you are
> communicating through the secret messages hidden in your stories.
>
> And only other Illuminati, having the right key to decode the secret
> messages, can read them.
>
> Your goal : World domination and establishing the New World Order.
>
> But I know what you are doing and I will tell EVERYBODY that your
> stories, your books are EVIL !