/lit/ - Literature

>>13746866

>>10874757
>>age
early 20s
>>favourite book
Concluding Unscientific Postscripts
>>favourite philosopher
either Plato or Plotinus, both of which are fun to read, as are the Hellene Stoics
>>favourite theologian
Aquinas for his discipline, Kierk for keeping it real
>>favourite historian
Peter Watson
>>favourite poet
Catullus or one of the Brit. Romantics
>>favourite lyricist
Will Oldham
>>favourite filmmaker
P.T. Anderson (?)
>>favourite experimental filmmaker
Vertov or Abuladze
>>favourite photographer
Araki
>>favourite painter
J.M.W. Turner, Lessing, or (living) Samantha Keely Smith
>>favourite architect
that one mod American guy from the 60s/70s
>>favourite sculptor
the prehistoric anon who did that thicc Austrian Venus
>>favourite youtube channel
Marcel the Drunkard
>>favourite booktube channel
none
>>favourite youtube lecturer
none, but Sadler and Roderick seem alright
>>favourite podcast
Elucidations (contemporary philosophers)
>>favourite literature related podcast
none
>>favourite composer
aside from Bach, John Tavener hands-down
>>favourite artist
art pollutes the mind, and is a poor imitation of nature
>>bible translations you own
semi-original KJV (the original w/o the fucked up font), Oxford Annotated (NRSV), Douay-Rheims, the famous one with the four different languages (starts with a W)
>>favourite form of art
literature and philosophy
>>best form of art
lit. and phil.
>>favourite beverage
black coffee, appalachian spring water, bottled german mineral water
>>favourite beverage while reading
iced black coffee, cool tap water
>>favourite alcoholic beverage
used to be cheap whisky, but i'm teetotal with rare exceptions (full-bodied cab, then)
>>daddy or mommy issues
daddy spanked me a bunch; i think my mom is more of a brainlet than she actually is (trying to read Kierk, bless her heart)
>>is life suffering
not necessarily
>>is love the meaning of life
it's something, alright
>>do you belive in god
in a paranoid, neoplatonist way
>>are you a manlet
6'3", german stock

I feel guilty of narcissism, desu.

— a boy is taught by an old gay man who lives backwards in time

— a man goes to a mountain, does nothing for a long time, then dies with irony

— an older man writes his younger friend a series of letters, telling him marriage is bliss

— the crowds anticipate a couple of men, having read the stories of their earlier misadventures

>writer
Flann O'Brien or Mishima
>poet
John Keats/Donne/Ashberry
>book
The Complete Works of Plato or "If on a winter's night…"
>composer
i want to say bach, but it's chopin desu
>musician
will oldham
>artist
either JMW Turner or Samantha Keely Smith—don't know much about visual art though.
>film
Repentance (dir. Abuladze) or Rashomon