/lit/ - Literature

>>22136387
Seppuku for Dummies
>All that a man does is physiognomical of him. You may see how a man would fight, by the way in which he sings; his courage, or want of courage, is visible in the word he utters, in the opinion he has formed, no less than in the stroke he strikes. He is one; and preaches the same Self abroad in all these ways.
Now, in earnest, I recommend the works of Oscar Wilde, who preached a cult of beauty and successfully gave himself that aura despite sporting a rather grotesque appearance.

>>11482290
*refutes you*

>>10863303
why do anglos like germans so much?

Reading through Sartor Resartus at this moment, greatly enjoy the style; anyone read Thomas Carlyle? im picking up his Essays aswell soon...

>"[Walt Whitman] thinks he must be a big man because he lives in a big country."

What did he mean by this?

Is he the most underrated writer of the 19th century?

>>5919422
>secular democracy
>with labour and
>press rights,
>freedom of religion and thought,
>welfare and all that.

none of those are good.

We need to be listening to Carlyle and not Marx