/lit/ - Literature

>>16361401
Interesting.

I like this thread.

>>16312490
Notes from the Underground.

Now give me something!

>>14847983
Firstly, there are none who have suffered more. It is the image of the suffering of the world in symbolic representation. And even though it were the greatest of suffering, symbolically it was not mere suffering either. But -as is known- he died for all the suffering and sins of the world, to redeem it thereof, and furthermore with the crucifixion as the centre of the world, the entire religion so it is the image of redemption and rebirth also; the absolute ideal. As Wagner says:

>We have nothing here to do with the astoundingly varied attempts of speculative human reason to explain the nature of this Son of the God, who walked on earth and suffered shame: where the greater miracle had been revealed in train of that manifestation, the reversal of the will-to-live which all believers experienced in themselves, it already embraced that other marvel, the divinity of the herald of salvation. The very shape of the Divine had presented itself in anthropomorphic guise; it was the body of the quintessence of all pitying Love, stretched out upon the cross of pain and suffering. A—symbol?—beckoning to the highest pity, to worship of suffering, to imitation of this breaking of all self-seeking Will: nay, a picture, a very effigy! In this, and its effect upon the human heart, lies all the spell whereby the Church soon made the Græco-Roman world her own.