/lit/ - Literature

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Why won't they reprint it???

what the fuck did just read ?

>The paradise is the ideal life on top of the marble cliffs, a life at once monastic and military, in a fairyland outside time and space, where the women are beautiful and compliant, the animals (including a remarkable set of vipers) beautiful and tame, and the gardens and vineyards perennially fruitful. Religion is a genial paganism based on fertility rites in the spring and vintage festivals in the autumn; philosophy is a series of cozy and witty symposiums; science (largely botany) is an untroubled contemplation of the beauty of nature.

Comfy

>Its sharp disapproval of violent masses, as well as its prediction or description of death camps, was noted and helped Jünger's rehabilitation after the Second World War although he had not gone into exile like most anti-Nazi authors. Jünger himself, however, refused the notion that the book was a statement of resistance, describing it rather as a "shoe that fits various feet".