• mindbleach
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    9 hours ago

    These light-novel titles get weirder every year.

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      4 hours ago

      Robinson Crusoe is considered the first English language novel.

      Its title when it was first published was:

      The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself.

      So, you see, we are simply returning to traditional forms.

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        3 hours ago

        Oh, like how isekai was invented by Mark Twain.