/lit/ - Literature

>mfw people have been trying to derail and report this thread for 3 days unsuccessfully

Too add to the list I would say Ezra Pound for poetry. Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West is also good

Are there any linguistic books that deal with the etymology of the word NIGGER?

How did NIGGER arise and what sort of figurative and metaphorical weight does it currently have in genre fiction?

>>6992840

Pagans/Vikings would have a simple way of dealing with homosexuals.

They would hang them and drop them in a bog. I'm not sure why this practice didn't catch on with the Christians.

I've realized that much of our problems are caused by ressentiment. The style that Nietzsche talked about.

What should I read to learn more about it?
It's popping up everywhere and on every side of the political and social spectrum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment

>>6095697
>What is this thread about

It's about which countries/peoples gave the world the best culture and literature, so far.

Did something trigger you, my dear?