/lit/ - Literature

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I found some of the things I was looking for and realized some of the things I was looking for could not be found. Once you identify the groundwork structure and key leverage points of your indistinct intuitions and desires the yearning for "home" that attracts many to philosophy evaporates. The instincts that make you you and cannot be proved or disproved by argument intensify and ossify and intruding ideas are easily catalogued into your system of values without demolishing it completely.

1. D. H. Lawrence is superior to Joyce, Proust, Nabokov, and all of the other 20th century writers venerated by the peasants of /lit/.

>“Did I feel a twinge in my little toe, or didn’t I?” asks every character of Mr. Joyce or of Miss Richardson or M. Proust. . . . Through thousands and thousands of pages Mr. Joyce and Miss Richardson tear themselves to pieces, strip their smallest emotions to the finest threads, till you feel you are sewed inside a wool mattress that is being slowly shaken up, and you are turning to wool along with the rest of the woolliness.

>It’s awful. And it’s childish. It really is childish, after a certain age, to be absorbedly self-conscious.

2. Christopher Hitchens and the neo-conservatives were right about Islamic terrorism, Iraq, and on a macro-scale, the solutions to each of those problems. If you want to develop a level-headed political outlook, read Hitchens. Avoid his curmudgeon brother, Chomsky, and most anyone French.

3. Walden is an excellent introduction to literature and philosophy. Reading Emerson and Thoreau is vastly more advantageous than reading Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Camus, or Sartre. There is a somber, whining, wintry, humorless, herbaic strand of pussicity masked under the term "existentialism" that charms twisted spines and distressed intestines.

1. D. H. Lawrence is superior to Joyce, Proust, Nabokov, and all of the other 20th century writers venerated by the peasants of /lit/.

>“Did I feel a twinge in my little toe, or didn’t I?” asks every character of Mr. Joyce or of Miss Richardson or M. Proust. . . . Through thousands and thousands of pages Mr. Joyce and Miss Richardson tear themselves to pieces, strip their smallest emotions to the finest threads, till you feel you are sewed inside a wool mattress that is being slowly shaken up, and you are turning to wool along with the rest of the woolliness.

>It’s awful. And it’s childish. It really is childish, after a certain age, to be absorbedly self-conscious.

2. Christopher Hitchens and the neo-conservatives were right about Islamic terrorism, Iraq, and on a macro-scale, the solutions to each of those problems. If you want to develop a level-headed political outlook, read Hitchens. Avoid his curmudgeon brother, Chomsky, and most anyone French.

3. Walden is an excellent introduction to literature and philosophy. Reading Emerson and Thoreau is vastly more advantageous than reading Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Camus, or Sartre. There is a somber, whining, wintry, humorless strand of "existentialism" that thrives on twisted spines and distressed intestines.

the best ones are real expensive

you'd be okay with getting:
napoleon by frank mcwhatever
napoelon by philip dwyer
moscow 1812: napoelon's fatal march
the military maxims of napoleon

AMAA

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the great one is ready to answer some questions from these mindless blank virgins

twiggy posting for a little over a year and has not once taken a bookshelf picture even though my library is superior to every single of one your libraries artfully selected well organized great variety invaluable so awesome

Heidegger desired rest, order, calmness, peace, torpor, and being absorbed in mechanical activity. An old man clipping the blades of grass of his lawn with scissors. You can feel yourself on the golf course while reading his works. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. Hegel was right: being is an abstract, empty concept. Heidegger knew this but it gave him something heavy and enigmatic to hold in front of the eyes of his bewildered readers. To Heidegger, the loss of Being means the loss of tradition, heritage, German soil, and other sedatives he could conveniently place under the concept. His philosophy is a cold heap of well-organized metal piled on top of a few small flowers. He has some useful terminology but, despite its symmetrical, even-number, square façade, his philosophy is shallow and only fruitful in its destruction. Poe is his doppelgänger.

post french moralist quotes dudes

Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

>>6879735
Well, I have to go. It isn't like I will get any decent responses to this thread anyway since /lit/ is nothing more than a swamp of tube-mouth philistines who are too cowardly to post with a tripcode and too weak-willed to read the books they buy, especially Walden. It was nice talking to you, amigo.

The whale is the deepest blood-being of the white race.

The last phallic being of the white man. Hunted into the death of upper consciousness and the ideal will. Our blood-self subjected to our will. Our blood-consciousness sapped by a parasitic mental or ideal consciousness.

To use the words of Jesus, IT IS FINISHED.

Consummatum est!

Post-mortem effects, presumably.

The Next Step: The Open Road.

Sun
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41wo/chapter3.html

Pulsing with marvellous blue, and alive, and streaming white fire from his edges, the Sun!

The Fox
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/l41f/

Here is a fast and easy way to into Nietzsche. Ignore Schopenhauer and Kant for now. Watch the lecture series I posted below while you wait for your copy of Basic Writings of Nietzsche (translated by Walter Kaufmann) to arrive in the mail. Read the Genealogy of Morals. The lecture series is based around it.

https://youtu.be/2fTnEB_r_6Q

In the extract and in my description, I might be over-emphasizing thinking over action. Anyway, this whole method of philosophy is pretty dumb. I notice it in Marx too so it is probably coming from Hegel. Instead of developing a concept out of many simple facts, it seems like Heidegger is developing a concept and trying to make many simple facts fit after the concept was already developed.

The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler is widely accepted as the best book on Napoleon but Napoleon: The Path to Power or Napoleon by Frank McLynn will be decent starting points and cheaper and easier to find.

>Who is your favorite philosopher?
Nietzsche

>Who is your favorite poet or prose author (of fiction)?
Proust