/lit/ - Literature

Oh. Pictures online of them.
They're pretty shredded...

You could do as well as I.
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html
I've only read Pagels book on the subject.

Or this

Isn't it the first rule of an author?

"Know your audience"

Is there truly such a thing as a 'timeless' piece of literature?

I'm talking about literature which unveils some truth about the noumenological human experience and thus transcends the ephemeral fashion / culture of its epoch? Or, in fact, are these cultures and fashions the sole architects of how we interpret the universe?

Is there a primordial and universal human nature which Shakespeare/Dante/Goethe access through their work which allowed them to remain popular for centuries, or is it just that their literature is so seminal that it cannot be ignored because of its status as an irrevocable part of our cultural heritage?

>>1965679

are you talking about the codex gigax?

>>1674718
I poked around the internet a bit ago and learned there was someone who tried to read it all. He took many years and gave it up. Its repetitive drivel apparently. The man never when back to correct grammar or punctuation and probably filled every inch of the notebooks.

>>1674216
>[C]an this be an outsider art general?
Sure why not.
Last time i wrote here about this guy I was reminded of Voynich Manuscript, (Which in turn reminds me of the older Codex Giga) which is a mysterious, maybe alchemical, book from the 15th century written in an unknown language, or gibberish maybe.
I imagine the author to be like an ancient Darger.

>>1530446
And splice it with some Codex Gigas

Has anyone ever heard of this Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible?

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