Light of thy countenance. Is it literature?

I think literature is anything that is meant to be read for fun can be considered literature, even comic books. I would definitely consider Light of Thy Countenance a piece of literature. What makes it different from most literature is that is has visual illustrations to make up for the smaller quantity of words. I don’t think the illustrations necessarily take away from the experience of reading the book, it just gives glimpse into the world of the book in which the reader fills in the rest of the blanks using his/her imagination. For Light of Thy Countenance, the visual illustrations would have been absolutely necessary for the reader to understand and visualize everything that’s going because everything in this book is so abstract. Though it is only a very short book which could be read in nearly an hour, it has a lot to offer to the reader because there are so many interpretations to the pictures that the book presents as well as the words. The book is definitely not easy to interpret like most comic books are and the language is a little bit subtle at first, but definitely gives the author’s opinion to the readers in a very quick and efficient way. The book basically talks about the effects television has on people and how it is changing humanity as a whole. For instance, television is changing the way we think about sex and romance. Because we’ve seen it on television so many times, we basically all have the same idea of what romance should look like. In a way, we have all lost our individuality because of television. With television comes pornography, which we see at the end of the book. In a way pornography is almost like having sex with the television, which the personification of television implies, saying “I am the only pure and true relationship that you will ever know.” One of the advantages that pornography offers is sex without all the bad things in relationships, which is one reason why some people may prefer pornography over real sex. We see in the book’s illustration, a man and his female partner parting indifferently and the man watching pornography afterwards. There are also a lot of similarities of themes between Light of Thy Countenance and R.U.R, such as the rising of technology. In both of the books, we see humanity eventually loses control of their own technology and fall victim to their own creations. Both books seem to warn us about the future of technology and how it will negatively affect humanity.