User blog comment:Thrycius/Zheiro and The Moonlight Sculptor: Chapter 2/@comment-67.82.64.153-20150424045056/@comment-25002135-20150424174247

You bring up a good point about the artistic value. It is true that there is artistic value to it, and that by duplicating the same thing over and over again the market value has dropped it, but it could also be said that since they same rabbit has been duplicated over and over again, it is no longer unique. Zheiro has basically ended up trying to carve the exact same thing over and over again from musle memory in an attempt to mass produce and sell figurines for zel so he can survive, but that turned out detrimental to him. A vicious cycle, if it were; he was trying to survive, so he begins mass production, but that actually lowered the amount of zel he could make overall (via more materials need/lower cost per figure), so he ends up trying to mass produce even faster > quality also drops and etc.

So yes, the artistic value isn't exactly zero, but it isn't all that high anymore; and Thrycius was just trying to make a point.

Maybe I didn't explain it well enough in the story, though. I wonder if I should see if I can fix that.

I think the main reason that I'm using 'long story short' for various parts is to reduce exposition length and to prevent the story from dragging explanations from going out too long. I mean, considering it's Thrycius, he might end up with a 50+ page story about why something works- and that would more than quickly derail the plot of the original story!

Well, that was the main reason for it, lol xD

Anyway, thank you for the comment! I really appreciate it.