I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

“Only the candles and the soap were of German origin. They had a ghostly, opales…”

“Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. *Harmless…”

“In Trout's novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two…”

“all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide…”