Originality · 11:19pm Sep 15th, 2015
Extremely snooty people, probably English majors, have stated that no truly original story has been created since the Ancient Greeks. While I could easily dispute this assertion -- as far as I know, the Greeks didn't do surrealism as we understand it -- I am inclined to agree with the snobs and hipsters, at least in general. In fiction, there exists a finite number of concepts and archetypes from which to draw, and given the world's huge population coupled with such a long span of time, there