/lit/ - Literature

Don Quick-Oats.

>>12148962
>Furthermore, the will, agitated by the insatiable drive for pleasure, no longer follows reason but rather the tumult of the passions.

>>11134493
>muh i studied neuroscience
All undergrad neuroscience programs are horribly bad. He only mentioned this irrelevant fact to make him appear intelligent right off the bat.
>yeah, the "statistical methods" were bad so I uhh, went for philosophy
Sure...
>they all are homosexuals!
I know he's just joking but this is an unsubstantiated claim, propagated only recently by revisionist historians.
>muh I went on to get muh PhD
>too stupid to develop a unique dissertation
>bitches and moans
>picks something above his ability to grasp as his dissertation topic
I assume he was suffering from Gender Dysphoria at the time of his funded PhD admission, and simply was granted place due to inclusive policies.

I would gauge he has an IQ of 115. Not cut out for a philosophy PhD which is why he dropped out.

>>11129073
>bottom's dream
Drivel that should be burned.
Fiction that tries to preach non-fictional revision about Edgar Allan Poe.

Make no mistake, Zettels Traum, is thickly veiled erotic fantasy of some verbose fool that has no place in the canon of great German literature.

The guy in the picture is trying to look pretentious and pseudo-intellectual. The only good that book is for is actual kindle for setting a fire ablaze.
This applies to every work of Arno Schmidt.

The only reason why he is even relevant is because classical Germans literature (eg Goethe), was seen as "nationalistic" post WWII and consequently, new shit-tier authors were artificially promoted in West Germany.