/lit/ - Literature

>Kierkegaard was facing financial struggles again, and accepted a job as a clerk in a shoe store, back in Copenhagen. He would remarkably ignore male customers, no matter how much they'd beg for his attention or scream at his ears. In regards to female costumers though, Kierkegaard would give his full attention, and escort them through every pair of shoes available, sometimes for hours, only for them to make no choice at all. And when they finally chose something, Kierkegaard would say "shall we do the honors" and offer himself to remove the ladie's old shoe. With the shoes in his hands, he'd stop and look at it for a while, proceeding to bury his face in it, taking a long loud deep inhale, that would bring all the store's attention towards himself. When costumers, looking rather confused, would ask what was he doing, he'd respond "No, no, that's nothing, i'm just assessing the quality of the material", proceeding to inhale again.
- Kierkegaard, Biography and Selected Works

Kierkegaard, Dante, Virgil... What are some other pre 20th century writers who were sexual deviants?

>Kierkegaard was definitely not without fault, for though cristianity the anxiety of death, it has not provided adequate treatment for sexual impulses. This expresses itself in Kierkegaard in a basic primal fetish. He announces it on a letter to his friend E. Boesen, concerning a Spanish woman: "For her feet belongs to that kind of delicate white feather, hand drawn by god himself. One can not, and should not repress himself at such sight. It's unchristian to do so. For God is beauty and beauty is truth and not recognizing beauty is not recognizing truth, thus it's the same as rejecting God. A man must give all of himself to worship it. He must approach it with delicacy and not be so eager to finish the work. He must be careful. But at one such point, beauty overthrows reason and he must undress the feet immediately. He must bury himself within the continents, the undiscovered countries, that lay between toes. He must smell it and drown in her feet scents. He must tickle it and watch the appropriate crimson red expression in her face. He must go mad in the delicacies and mathematicalities of the carefully sculpted lines and gently protuding green veins that innundates the white plain like immaculate rivers. She must play accordingly, and happyfully do her part, oh lucky man! She must do her part and come forth upon him and give him the final blow: a round of face stepping, for he is a sinner, a beast, an unworthy man, and should be punished to death by feet asfixiation!". Later, Kierkegaard shows typical christian shame and regret:"To masturbate is to enter in degeneracy. It's a sinful, wretched act and the saint dotcrine states that he who may commit such acts shall not enter upon heaven. I shall not enter upon heaven."
- Kierkegaard: A Biography
Are there any books on writers and philosophers sexual practices?

>I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing.

What did he mean by this?

any atheist here still feel some sort of spirituality? if god is love, then is love god?

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>mfw people read Nietzsche