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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
I don't like the "upon the shoulders of giants" idea because I think it's really just "letting real people who live real lives write stories". It's not a coincidence that the more aristocracy-heavy the literature, the more wacky their characterizations and plotting. Deus ex machina is the kind of idea an aristocrat would unwittingly fabricate due to being too isolated from the real world
That's like saying you don't like the idea of "monkey see, monkey do."
Surviva's right, you learn the ways of the guy who succeeded before you in order to succeed even further. And it's strangely tied to that book I didn't like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and its idea of Quality. Anyone worth their salt can see what's good across many works, separate it from what's not, and combine it into something better.
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