/lit/ - Literature

>>18765921
Do deranged Twitter trolls trying to get someone’s cash-cow canceled matter to you at all?

>>16683131
jesus, how obscure

>>16637764
He’s either stupid or trolling. Not a representative of of all socialism

You like that bear look, eh?

>>14411311
>just a passage you like
From The Dawn [197]

>The hostility of the Germans to the Enlightenment.
>Let us reconsider the contribution to culture in general made by the Germans of the first half of this century with their spiritual labor, and let us first take the German philosophers. They have reverted to the first and most ancient stage of speculation, for they have been satisfied with concepts instead of explanations, like the thinkers of dreamy ages; they revived a prescientific kind of philosophy. Second, there are the German historians and romantics: their general effort was directed towards gaining a place of honor for more ancient, primitive feelings, and especially Christianity, the folk soul, folk saga, folk language, medievalism, oriental aesthetics, Indianism. Third, there are the natural scientists: they fought against the spirit of Newton and Voltaire and sought, like Goethe and Schopenhauer, to restore the idea of a divine or devilish nature and its entirely ethical and symbolical significance.
Etc.

I like this passage because it reminded me of an idea I had for a sort of alternate history story, where Germany closes its borders, something like Japan did, but the overall theme was a gothic sort of fairytale. The royals wouldn’t age and a months seemed to be a day to them. This would change a whole lot of history and historical figures, but it all just floats in my head for now.