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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1502998" data-attributes="member: 1328">When I was in college (note: in France a <a href="http://www.wordreference.com/fr/en/translation.asp?fren=coll%E8ge" target="_blank">collège</a> is what you would call a secondary school, I think), I read in French an excerpt from a late medieval (or early Renaissance, don't remember precisely, it's quite old).It was quite interesting, the writer was constantly speaking to the reader (something you don't see much in modern writings); and all the introduction to the tale was, principally, a saddened rant on the impossibility to tell something new, all having already been written.It was stuff like "So, reader, my good friend, here comes the lament on the author, who should have been born before the Ancient Greek, and maybe even before them, to really create a story. Ah, dear reader, you don't know how hard it is to tell something that has already been told a thousand times while still being surprising and interesting enough to avoid being boring. All I can hope is that you will like our heroes enough to forgive you already know the story. The first was..." Then there was the description of the three heroes, and it was much cliché too: a brave and noble-looking young blond guy, a grimmer and brooding guy with dark hair, and an energic-looking redhed. All three depicted riding at night on a dirt track in a forest.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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