Realism

[close] A group for the lovers and haters of Tolstoy, and his ineffable novel.

[close] This is a group for "Class of 2021" students at NIST in Bangkok. http://bit.ly/nist21gr

[close] This group is Mr. Roach's 7th period World Literature class. Goodreads will serve as our forum to continue discourse.

[close] Ever wondered why the things and creatures that go bump into the night retain their place in our collective imagination, permeate culture and manifest within various forms of popular media and exert powerful pulls upon our imagination? The simple answer is, because they exist, because they are real, and the images and incarnations we have of them, what we call the supernatural, or the paranormal, are what they used to be. But not any more. As the presence of mankind crept across the world like an inexorable cancer, corrupting everything we touch with our greedy hands and selfish minds, the light of the human blight has shone into the shadows, causing those that dwelt within them to either adapt, or die out, for like any other living organism, denizens of the night such as vampires, were-beasts,zombies,fairies, trolls and the like, are subject to the survival of the fittest, and as a species, these 'transhuman' communities, wherever they exist, scattered, or hidden, were pushed to the brink of near extinction, by the human lust for more. With the encroachment of the human race, eradicating the mystery, the mystique of the Old World, hiding ceased to be a bastion of safety, and so it came to pass, that the tides of evolution equipped these species for continued survival, an event known collectively as 'the human condition' as a result of which, anonymity and integration, essentially 'becoming human' became the best means by which they could survive.