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Anonymous Sun Oct 15 10:49:25 2017 No.10149739 [Reply] [Original]

>The courage and freedom of affect in the face of a powerful enemy, in the face of a sublime hardship, in the face of a horrible problem, this victorious state is what the tragic artist selects, what he glorifies. The martial aspects of our soul celebrate their saturnalia in the face of tragedy; anyone who is used to suffering, anyone who goes looking for suffering, the heroic man praises his existence through tragedy, the tragedian raises the drink of sweetest cruelty to him alone.
>Twilight of The Idols
What books capture this spirit?

In other words, what works of fiction relish in suffering and immorality in this ecstatic vein of the early tragedies? For me, Lolita fits perfectly into this: everything goes wrong for everyone and they all had it coming, and it's beautiful and enticing and sexually sadistic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 15 14:43:58 2017 No.10150720 >>10149739 The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

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