What is the quintessential American lit genre and why is it science

>>9121255
I read a sci fi story where a teenage boy obsessed with math has sex with a physical manifestation of the number 7

after that I sort of kept my distance

>>9121263
i just read a post about a retard who said he read a wtf story that any non-redditard would find intriguing

after that i sort of kept my distance

>>9121263
That sounds intriguing. Was 7 anthropomorphized? Was the story a metaphor for the obsession of mathematicians?

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>>9121255
anyway, some more great great Robert McCall art

>>9121263
>7
>not 8
Kinda gay.

>>9121273
Yes, it was a beautiful young woman, but also it turns out he was a number too and so they were technically brother and sister, so it was incest, but immortal math incest from the Platonic-Pythagorean realm. Also while they fucked they talked about things that come in sevens.

>>9121300
stop making shit up you attention seeker

>>9121307
yo dude, don't be jelly of an actual writer.

>>9121307
I'm not – I found the source.

'A Rite of Spring' by Fritz Leiber, in the Universe 7 sci-fi anthology edited by Terry Carr, 1977.

Here is a review of it:

http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf849