/lit/ - Literature

>>16796660
Based. I'm surprised most people don't know much about his master use of metre.

>None of Wagner’s works is more closely linked with Old Norse, and more especially Old Icelandic, culture. It would be carrying coals to Newcastle if I tried to go further into the significance of the incomparable eddic poems. I will just mention that on my first visit to Iceland I was allowed to gaze on the actual manuscript, even to leaf through it. . . It is worth noting that Richard Wagner possessed in his library the same Icelandic–German dictionary that is still used today. His copy bears clear signs of use. This also bears witness to his search for the meaning and essence of the genuinely mythical, its very foundation.
- Wolfgang Wagner

Why should I not live my life as a Don Quixote?

Any books for this, I really want books for this, and please obviously not Don Quixote.

>>14920801
IT GOES

HOMER
HESIOD
AESOP(or alternatively Aeschylus/Sophocles)

VIRGIL
HORACE
OVID

BEOWULF/NIBELUNGENLIED
WOLFRAM
DANTE

SPENSER
MARLOWE
SHAKESPEARE
(I would have chosen some French or Spanish writer among these three but I know too little of them, so please fill it in for me)

GOETHE
SCHILLER
JOYCE

...

I would have liked more Minnesingers/Troubadours but what can you do. The list isn't perfect but good enough.

>>14709928
The Complete Works of Plato, The Complete Works of Aristotle.

Really to understand their place and infinite value you have to know the entire history of philosophy, and develop a fairly healthy way of viewing the world. For example, was Aristotle wrong in stating the mind to be in the heart? Of course not. You have to understand the culture they themselves belonged to also, and not all of history. We develop abstract to understand them now, so that is to say you need to understand their most literal elements also.

You'll get it at some point, but they exist among all levels and you have to interpret them among such. I'm open to any specific questions. Oh and remember, Plato is far more self aware in what he writes than you might at first think. Nothing he says in whole or part is without intent.

>>14709942
>but I've read that Aristotle is too much bugman tier muh logic
Not at all, he is completely worth reading almost as much as Plato. He does focus on being more realistic that is true(considering he wasn't just a philosopher like Plato but also a Scientist in having wider interests), however I do not see him as being tainted by this or his wider interests. Different methods but he finds himself in the same place. In some areas however he is strikingly similar to Plato.

I think our thoughts of him would have been very different if we actually had his works.

>>14572281
>Fair enough, but it still reads to me as if there's Jungian undercurrents, with the talk of synchronicity and emerging consciousness out of the unconscious.
Well now this is an undervaluation, Jung is very important to this thread(he's even Ops picture) but that doesn't mean its about him.

>Could you elaborate on what you mean by "energistic patterns of experience"?
Without writing an essay, character is inherited, meaning belongs to character, meaning is beyond any total finitude. Like a circle may be measured, but never squared. This is our movement throughout the world. The base of the world, it is that primeval cave in which we have crawled unto in which to watch the rain occur on green hills

>"God lets the oppositional will of the ground operate in order that might be which love unifies and subordinates itself to for the glorification of the Absolute. The will of love stands about the will of the ground and this predominance, this eternal decidedness, the love for itself as the essence of being in general, this decidedness is the innermost core of absolute freedom."

Are you starting to see it yet anon, the drama of life? And that any image(modernity) which cannot express this movement, is unnatural.