/lit/ - Literature

Unironically Obama

>>19497720
>Polk
>His Diary
Found him.

Teddy Roosevelt wrote like 50 books

>>19497720
Lincoln
Jefferson
Madison
Kennedy

>>19497720
Ulysses S Grant

>>19497732
Obama on TS Eliot:

'I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time.

Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets, when he’s less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak.

Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.)

And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex?'

>>19497720
Theodore Roosevelt constantly read…up to 3 books a day. Wrote 18 books.

>>19497732
>Was a Pseud
Literally /lit/

>>19497720
Joe Biden i guess

>James A. Garfield knew and taught both Latin and Greek, and he was the first president to campaign in two languages (English and German). He was also ambidextrous. Stories emerged to the effect that Garfield would entertain his friends by having them ask him questions, and then writing the answer in Latin with one hand while simultaneously writing the answer in Greek with the other.

>Polk
>my diary desu
yep, it's him

Theodore Roosevelt.

>>19497720
>Biden
>Ulysses
this can't be real

>>19497829

Pretty fitting I would say

>>19497829
>>19497883

Finnegan's Wake would be more fitting

>>19497775

Also Garfield gave a cute trapezoid proof of the Pythagorean theorem, cutting the more natural "square" proof in half. Both are far better than Euclid's proof, one of the latter's major blunders, despite being correct.

>>19497902

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Teddy.

Roosevelt
Jefferson
Jackson
George W. Bush

>>19497760
>implying that's why they friendzoned him during that time in america

>>19497720
Teddy Roosevelt, obviously.

>>19497753
His cheat sheet was to not subvocalize and also to skip over boring parts (he mentions he skipped over lots of Dickens).

>>19497953

The latter two suggestions are silly. The lib media loved to do the "George Bush is stupid" thing when he was in but he wasn't that bright despite the Yale grooming.

Still, Bush the Younger had a based philosophical moment. When asked in some debate who his favorite philosopher was, without missing a beat he replied Jesus Christ. This drew snark from the weak commentariat, who had failed to understand that his answer was an educated and valid one.

Despite this I still hate him. One of my favorite things about Trump was that he functioned as an anti-Bush, especially since Trump is not a true believer Christian like Bush stupidly was. Still Bush's knee-jerk "Jesus is Lord" answer was sincere, defensible, and the stuff of presidents.

>>19497751
wtf I love Obama now?

>The Bible

>>19497829
He's Irish so maybe he's LARPing for pseud and paddy points. Should have said Normal People.

>>19498330
His comments on Christianity and answer that Christ was his favorite philosopher were at best exaggerations, and more likely than not political posturing. He should've said Aquinas or St. Augustine or something.

>>19497732
>>19497751
>>19498371
>tfw can't get art hoe pussy and become leader of the free world to cope

Calvin Coolidge supposedly translated Dante's Inferno as a wedding gift to his bride.
I'm not sure if that cute little story is true but he was well educated.