wombat_socho

Let us consider two "mainstream" "classics":
1 ) Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea;
2 ) Melville's Moby Dick.

1 ) A man spends the entire story obsessed with catching a big fish, and catches it, and dies.
2 ) A man spends the entire story obsessed with catching a big fish, and doesn't catch it, and dies.

So much more EDIFYING* than, say, a tale of a vengeance-bound sociopath in a society of teleports.


*EDIFYING (adj.): Understandable to union teachers.