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**meteeratymn** · 10-09-2008, 03:15 AM

Indeed.

But if 'literature' is defined by a certain quality of prose, then it's clearly nonsense to say that any genre of fiction cannot possibly reach those levels.

Obviously, I wasn't talking about literary quality, which is only explicable with great difficulty, and even then highly debatable: I was trying to democratise an argument that Eric seemed to be taking into incomprehensible aristocratic realms. (I imagine that this is the kind of thing you meant in your post, Sybarite?)

10-09-2008, 03:15 AM	#24
meteeratymn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	Indeed. But if 'literature' is defined by a certain quality of prose, then it's clearly nonsense to say that any genre of fiction cannot possibly reach those levels. Obviously, I wasn't talking about literary quality, which is only explicable with great difficulty, and even then highly debatable: I was trying to democratise an argument that Eric seemed to be taking into incomprehensible aristocratic realms. (I imagine that this is the kind of thing you meant in your post, Sybarite?)
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