/lit/ - Literature

>>8413808

Mishima, so we could spend hours talking about how America has ruined everything.

>>8177741

RIP in peace.

>>8062052

Bukowski is such a fucking hack.

I wish I could kill him and all of his fans.

>>7772431

He and his friends stole from a neighbour's pear tree; despite not being hungry, and having better ones at home.

He regards trees as highly significant. In terms of how to rightly possess one, for example:

>He is happier who knows how to possess a tree, and for the use thereof renders thanks to Thee, although he may not know how many cubits high it is, or how wide it spreads, than he who measures it and counts all its branches, and neither owns it nor knows its Creator

He also spent nine years as a Manichee; a weird religion where trees were believed to have sprung from the semen of demons that had spilled on the ground.

Their diet was also significant; the Elect (higher echelons), ate the fruit of trees in the belief that they were freeing the 'light element' from the darkness of matter; which was otherwise lost to the Kingdom of Light.

Even from the perspective of the Manichean faith, this theft would have been a great sacrilege. For the Elect to this was serious; but the 'common' people who committed such crimes could seek forgiveness.

Specifically however, the more vile the animal form to which the fruit is offered, the greater the crime; hence why he mentions they threw the pears to pigs.

The crime also took place at least, which is when Manicheans believed the powers of darkness were at their height; making it further reprehensible.

Add to this, that he makes no mention of any harm to the tree; or what the owner may have thought, if anything. It was the crime itself that racked him; not in light of physical/material consequences, but those of a religious nature.

Add to this the Biblical/Genesis story of the Forbidden fruit, and you have your answer; in both of his religions, old and new, the stealing of fruit from a tree was the most (symbolically) heinous crimes you could commit.

It was a double heresy.