Bee and Stilly both know how to push me beyond my breadth of knowledge and literature with a single sentence. I think they are on to me. For me literature talks things to death as often as bringing them to life.

If you were to imagine a character who has never read even a single work of great literature, you could come to realize that there is a kind of purity in such a literatureless character, unpolluted by a myriad of opinions regarding; good, evil, love, betrayal, generousity, motivation, greed, hubris and humility. Only very personal and real life experiences shape that character's point of view.

Some may think that person would be illiterate and say that a person who can not read is the same as the person who does not, yet such a unique personae is virtually a biblical character is often the subject of great literature. A purely internally shaped character is quite different from, lets take for example, students of literary classics. One lives before one's own thoughts and actions, while the other lives more in a virtual world of other people's internal dialog. Differences exist no matter how you would compare and contrast the tabula raza personae with the most well read intellectual character.

History is full of the uneducated robber barons as well as the uneducated artists of sublime perfection. Many a story is about the peril of calling the illiterate "scum" "a stupid shit", only to be bested ar every turn by the "scum". Such is a day in the life of such scum.

In short it is a matter of pre concieved limitations and linear thinking versus a wide scope of fearless possibilities that defines most characters. A person who has not read a single book, picks up the melody on their own and sometimes is the composer.

Take for example the motivation felt by Wile E Coyote. It is hunger and survival but it is also a pride that intellect will outperform mere speed. etc. etc. yadayada yada yada yada.

For whom it may apply, and if it applies to thee:
Stick that in your Kindle and smoke it.








Rap,

'Corrado' Soprano was more of a nightmarish character who was indeed a ham.