/lit/ - Literature

>>15769698
And? You people act like reactionary ideologies are inherently lesser than pure arbitrary Marxist theory from 100-200 years ago.

Reactionary just means we've glimpsed a few years ahead into the trends of modernity, and we don't fucking like it.

Is it so wrong to readjust your worldview based on evidence and feedback from the real world? Should I go write a thousand theory essays in a university, before I get to accumulating political power, capital, and enacting my visions for the future?

Cattle that you are, to bark at me. You would have been executed in a simpler time, by a stronger breed of men, as God's divine will commands.

>>15200507
People who shit on classics for being ''superhero comic books for the ancients'' are incredibly shallow, reddit tier bugmen, who wanna feel a dopamine rush for having ''superior tastes.''

Homer is no McCarthy or Murakami. That's not the point of reading Homer. The point of reading Homer is to get a glimpse into the origins of humanity, and an expression of our nature as how the ancients saw it.

What are you in for? Nothing, if you're just doing this for a chore, or to say you've read it. But if you take the translations seriously, and read analysis and companion texts alongside it, you will be given a treasure trove of insight:
1. An insight into fundamental archaic human nature, psychology, mythology, and what it means to be a man, a lover, a soldier
2. The foundational texts and myths of European civilization, and an exercise in historical thinking, a foundational work that is referenced in echos throughout every European and Western literary tradition, up to and including the Great American Novel, the Irish poets, and Burger Punk fags like DFW.

It is not merely an infantile catalog of events, and names and deeds. In short, you're in for something sacred.

I tread my copy of Homer like a Muslim would treat the Quran. I never read it if I'm not clean, or in the right state of mind, I never let it touch the ground, I never let other people damage it. When I read these classics, I like to do so after a bath or shower, eating the same kinds of foods my Greco-Roman ancestors would have eaten along the Mediterranean. I eat grapes, dates, pistachios, kalamatas olives. I drink wine made by my grandfather, and meade I made myself. Sometimes, I even put on lyre music, or archeomusicology albums to get in the mood.

>>14315344
>23
>Getting my life back together. Just got an apartment. Mostly fixed my teeth. I'm my family's favourite again. Back in therapy. Still enrolled in school, but taking time out to reevaluate my ''dream program'' (and get some fucking employment that is better than minimum wage peanuts).
>Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities for a second time, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (Butler translation). Gave up on Infinite Jest for now... honestly want to resell the fucking book.

>>14265554
I'd answer all these questions but 4chan's system thinks my post is spam, but no amount of reformating will fix it.

>>14121122
True pagans don't take hormones and cut off their dicks, they do the old fashioned thing of dressing like a cute trap and fucking some senator / Greek teacher who's sick of their wife (until someone like Augustus comes around and puts out a death penalty for sexual degenerates).

As an ethnat, please don't use our word out of it's context of meaning that Christians are too weak on minorities, deviants like yourself, etc... If anything this person shaming porn addicts is a Christian with a spine, because there needs to be consequences for degeneracy.

>>14112431
It's not too late to turn back to the divine, abandon this book, and suffer the burden of this mortal plane with dignitas.

You making this book will weaken your soul, no matter how ironic or capitalistic your motives are.

Your audience reading this book will become mentally lesser, and feed their addictions to spectacle and sex.

You're also probably as good at writing as Butterfly is at dilating.

We all good everyone? Okay. Death to Jews, Gauls, Germanics, Persians, Assyrians, Greeks, Punics, etc...

AVE IVPITER OPTIMATES MAXIMVS

Do not start with the Greeks, Greeks are almost as low as Plebs and barbarians. Start with Virgil.