/lit/ - Literature

>The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.
*lowers fedora*
>There is no God and we are his prophets.
*unsheathes katana*
>It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
*teleports behind you*
>Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
*exhales sharply*
>Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
*slices you in two with a single stroke*
>This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

>>21972054
I'm not going to. Red Dead Redemption II is, unironically, a more mature and complete artwork, aesthetically superior (morally as well, but that matters little), whereas Blood Meridian is profoundly juvenile, both in its thesaurus-humping diction, as well as its wanton, apocalyptic nihlism. It is not a coincidence that it is a favorite among people aged 16-22.

I am always immensely surprised that people fail to realize just how childish and cringe it is. Please, just observe the following quotes, that exemplify the ethos of the book:
>It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures.
>War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
>Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
>The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.
Pic related, by the way.

Judge Holden is pure, distilled reddit, and superlatively cringe. To me, Blood Meridian failed completely as an artwork, because Holden is supposed to be calamitous and horrifying, a sort of primordial, satanic and inescapable evil, while what he actually is written as, is as a fat autistic redditor manchild quoting r/atheism posts.

I felt more deeply the evils of this world when my horse died in RDR2 than during any of Judge Reddits autistic fart-huffing musings.

>>21902053
>War is for men, and men are for war.
Well said dear sir. I often recall the musings of the Judge of Blood Meridian and find that his weighty words resonate greatly with the steel of my katana:

>“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”

>“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

>“This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.”

Now if you will all excuse me, it is time for me maintain my mastery with the blade - I train 5 hours a day. Since you have proven yourself to be masculine equal with your interesting observation on the nature of war, I bring you the gift of music - the very music I listen to as I hone my skills with the blade and ponder the nature of war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo8H5vUKMlk&list=RDEMkpmfHthfKbPpzGE_lALZvQ&start_radio=1

If only there were more gentlemen such as ourselves on these interwebz forums, dear sir, perhaps the world would not be in such a sorry state.

>>21686281
>That's a bare minimum for an educated 19th century European audience, and guess who was Nietzsche's intended audience?
>I guarantee that you do not understand Nietzsche. When he mentions the Renaissance I bet you think of paintings and Burckhardt. When he mentions the Greek you probably think of Mary Beard. When he mentions Wagner you think of napalm.
>You probably also grew up in overparented America and didn't have a toy gun nor contact with wild animals as a kid. Did you ever even ride a horse?

>Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

>“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”

Heh, I thought I'd find you racists here.

Watch your backs, losers. This blade is thirsty for the blood of racist incels. Fascists and Nazis too.

Tread carefully or face the consequences, chud.

>>17098496
>t. pic related

Got any advice on writing an edgy story about a scientist conducting human experiments without it turning into shitty fanfiction?
Blood-guts-murder. I want it to be real fucking edgy, but not the very shitty kind. Target audience is teens-young adults.

>>15176626
>I'm busy living my manifesto.