What makes great writers so abnormal?

Wops, forget to write the name. I read White Nights.

>Jane Austen

I am talking about modern literature...
Gibbon in his H. Dec Fall R Empire talks about the destruction of the library of. Alexandria and the loss of 99 % of the literature of the ancient world. He laments the same things we do today, loss of important Greek plays, books by Livy and Tacitus and Varro, etc. But he goes on to say "that we still have books the Ancient World thought were Treasures - the Illiad and the Odyssey...." and goes on to suggest that nearly all the ancient world's literature was almost certainly junk....
I can just imagine 500 or so years from now the literature professors talking about most 20th and 21st century lit and saying that "the sickness of the times was manifested in their literature...no hope...no meaning...pointless lives...no wonder their atheisic and nihilistic civilization ended up disappearing in a thermonuclear holocaust...."

Antidepressants should be illegal, they're the mental equivalent of diet pills for fat people.

Iliad*

not true at all

Who is Chekhov? Tolstoy wished he could be as great a man as him.

Those who are happy do not observe, those that claim both cannot be. For what reason does one have to observe critically when there is no reason to do so? Why question when all of one's queries have been answered? The un-elated ask why, the elated ask why not.

Based schizoid post!

You honestly dont sound like you read very much.