/lit/ - Literature

>I am a racist and a colonialist.
My Confession, p. 141; Albert Caraco

> I don't hide my profession of pessimism and I'm an avowed partisan of reaction.
Journal of 1969, p. 104, Albert Caraco

> I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, and concentration camps, and people deported.
Journal of 1969, p. 118, Albert Caraco

> In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner.
My Confession, p. 91, Albert Caraco

>I witness, alone in my room, as an isolated man, a man walled up, a man who chokes and who will die in the dark» ... «My audience is the walls of my room.
(Agonie, 258, 274)

>>18174538
Read "In praise of Darkness", you're in for a treat.

Independent thinking. The usual signs are:
1) They are cultural hermits, like no TV, no Cinema etc
2) Absence of precise knowledge of mainstream culture, because they don't consume mainstream media
3) Deep knowledge of history from a global perspective
4) Detachment from traditional culture - most but not all are (old) atheists or agnostics
5) A general emotional detachment from things, sometimes paired with a seemingly brutal pragmatism
6) Unusual knowledge not based on their career, transcending the STEM-Humanities separation
7) Unusual political views not always falling into the left-right spectrum
8) Sometimes a high, non-clinical asspie factor due to limited exposure to other people, though even those can navigate the social area on a superficial level

Borges wrote some Tanka by the way, OP may want to check it out.

Islam would just be Dancing Dervishes and Sufis poetry.

>>6068115
Toussaint's "Monsieur"
Kiyohiro Miura "He's leaving home"
Boleslav Prusz: Faraon
Most stuff from Dürrenmatt