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epicness through studied unepicness

After finishing the second book, which could not yet be released, Tycho Brahe found himself largely at a loss for freshness in his writing; his previous two works had been so epic as to include literally every single original thought in all of humanity that could be considered Epic. Making every possible attempt to find a new epic direction, a grueling attempt in which Brahe sat in thought pondering hard, not even blinking for easily eighteen full minutes, he still could come up with nothing suitably epic to include that had not been done before.

Tycho Brahe, crazed from monkey blood he received in a transfusion (a result of the 18 Minute Crisis), determined it was time to create a new epic. At the time, he dubbed it meta-epic, however, because it is nigh-universally agreed upon that two vowel sounds in a row are difficult to pronounce, Tycho Brahe edited the name for us "mere mortals" by altering it to 'epicness through studied unepicness', a path so epicly unepic it could never be written with upper-case letters (or even in small-caps font), and was only allowed to be written with apostrophes surrounding it, as it was not even epic enough to receive full quotation marks.

Brahe's Literary invention caught on wildly in the world of literature, though perhaps not in the way he had planned; the idea was, in fact, so genius, that it rent the fabric of space time and flew through the timestream like a decidedly small and insignificant bird, eventually landing, grealy altered, in the head of a prince in Classical India. While there is no evidence of whose head it entered, and no evidence beyond Tycho's assurance that it even landed in a head at all, it has been argued to have caused the creation of Buddhism. Other arguments attribute Nihilism, Stoicism, and Bauhaus architecture to this timestream-rip.

unepicness is often too unepic to even quote outside of the text in which it appears, although a few examples of unepicness are powerful enough to stand on their own. Precisely how they make the work more epic is not understood, although the effect is universal and and undeniable.

The least unepic of all the unepicness to appear in Tycho Brahe's novellas is presented below, in direct quote: