/lit/ - Literature

>>4606109

others to be swallowed

>>3671954
Maybe you should try reading some of Francis Bacon's Essays? You will need to read them slowly, or even re-read. I recommend the one Of Riches, but many are very good. He tends to get overlooked. You can read them free here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm

"Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. So saith Solomon, Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner, but the sight of it with his eyes?"

>>1475112
Amateur

>>1051148
I think that Melville and other Romanticist authors understood that quite well. What the author has seen or is imagining can not be directly transmitted, so the meanings are left to allegory and imagery for the reader to match with his own experiences.

The study of how truth is arrived at through words and argumentation, originates in Greece of course. The story of Rhetoric and the Sophists is a very enjoyable one.