/lit/ - Literature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz

http://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Other-Fleurs-Oeuvres-Choisies/dp/0486270920

I may have found the right book.

>>7132984
Magnificent.

>>7132995
Haven't read it, but read about it, something about jewels being glued to a turtle, extreme aestheticism, boredom. I will check it out.

>>7132689
I am reading Nabokov to overcome my cruelty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency,_Irony,_and_Solidarity#Part_III:_Cruelty_and_Solidarity

>>7081958
By my mere existence I outrage everything that has bad blood in its veins.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life. Moreover, with wisdom we shall learn liberality. The solitary hired man on a farm in the outskirts of Concord, who has had his second birth and peculiar religious experience, and is driven as he believes into the silent gravity and exclusiveness by his faith, may think it is not true; but Zoroaster,(14) thousands of years ago, travelled the same road and had the same experience; but he, being wise, knew it to be universal, and treated his neighbors accordingly, and is even said to have invented and established worship among men. Let him humbly commune with Zoroaster then, and through the liberalizing influence of all the worthies, with Jesus Christ himself, and let "our church" go by the board.

14. Persian prophet ca. 600 B.C., also known as Zarathustra