/lit/ - Literature

>>10953815
In the same spirit of gratitude, and with the same negligible chance of the intended recipient actually seeing it, I would like to thank the anon who recommended me three Kafka stories to begin reading. The Great Wall Of China and A Hunger Artist were good enough to make me read several Kafka stories, from a volume that had been sitting unread on my shelf for a decade.

I too will offer up my thanks, in hopes that the small likelihood it reaches the addressee is compensated by proportional dispensations of some general law of mingled gratitude and generosity, to the anon who recommended I 'start with the Greeks'; had I not received your inimitable advice I might still have my job, my girlfriend, and my hair, but what I have lost in social standing I have gained in nervous volatility and irascible contrarianism. I'm on book II of the Republic

>>10954132
Havent laughed like that in a while

>>10954132
upboated xD

A great fool once said, "the reason why the powerful man is grateful is this: his benefactor, through the benefit he confers, has mistaken and intruded into the sphere of the powerful man, now the latter, in return, penetrates into the sphere of the benefactor by the act of gratitude; that it is a milder form of revenge." This fool spoke not out of a rich skepticism toward the ingratiations of his lessers, nor even in a delusional, pathological defense of his inability to give or value thanks--he has spoken elsewhere of the art of homage that arrives to men of genius as all things, as an accumulation of their predecessors, and this awareness at least would give him pause from denying his grateful faculties as it would preclude him from that status he so covetously sought. No! he spoke for his shame! he had never known thanks, never been afforded practice in its conventions, never learned its habits! his sole merit was a sensitivity to the degradations of his time and throughout them all, but that condition had progressed only that after his time did his name know the obligation of those he served.

Never will he know, that fool! that nameless fool! Never will he hear my contempt and homage! I shout it to my time instead! I say to it, thank you, that you carry on the dissolution of eras in your advance, that I may live in times of genius, if not among its embodiments! And I thank that anon I hold in such contempt, that he supplied some earlier pages of this brilliant text.

>>10953852
nice

>>10953815
>>10953852
>>10954132

No problem guys, always glad to help with my recommendations.

up so that anon may see it

Now that the aspies are hopefully gone, thanks to the Anon who recommended Jacques Elull a couple of months ago. I didn't readhim but I see him mentiond more and more on the board lately, it's a healthy contribution to /lit/ cultre

>>10953815
>>10955037
was this in the context of talking about the French immigration debate in that thread that blew up with 300+ replies? If so that was me :)