/lit/ - Literature

Fencing used to be popular past time among students until the early 20th century, so thats some real male friendship there, mutilating the other to establish dominance in some tribal hierarchy, thats really great.
Thats something Schopenhauer also disproved off greatly, strange how that isnt brought up at all.

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I am the one who constantly gets called gay for calling out mens bullshit, happened ITT too. Which is ironic because I am around women while you have "platonic relationships" with other men.

What are the books all Napoleon admirers should read? His memoirs of St. Helena, what else? What books did Napoleon admire? What books after Napoleon should an admirer also read?

>He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

>He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

>Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron's ideal: the cultured thug.

What books do I need to read to become a cultured thug? What books and careers will make me a modern day feudal lord?

I’ve already read BAP, what’s next?